Trial reportJournal of behavioral medicine2016
A preliminary investigation into whether early intervention can improve weight loss among those initially non-responsive to an internet-based behavioral program.
Trial report in Journal of behavioral medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Brief coaching intervention to reverse weight regain during weight loss maintenance: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Trial
- Anti-obesity medication for weight loss in early nonresponders to behavioral treatment: a randomized controlled trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- An Adaptive Telephone Coaching Intervention for Patients in an Online Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Early Engagement is Associated with Better Weight Loss in Emerging Adults.American journal of health behavior · 2019Trial
- Early Weight Loss in Behavioral Treatment Predicts Later Rate of Weight Loss and Response to Pharmacotherapy.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
- PATH Trial for Examining Yoga as a Strategy to Improve Remote-Based Weight Loss in Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Phenotypic and genomic frameworks for precision pharmacotherapy in obesity: a narrative review.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Results of a pilot sequential multiple assignment randomized trial using counseling to augment a digital weight loss program.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Importance of early weight loss and other predictors of lower weight loss in a commercial program: A secondary data analysis.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Characterization of early non-responders within behavioral weight loss treatment.American journal of health behavior · 2024Article
- Reaching high-risk Black adults for diabetes prevention programming during a pandemic: The design of Fit & Faithful a randomized controlled community trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2022Article
- Impact of a Novel Diabetes Prevention Intervention for Early Slow Weight Loss Responders Among Adults With Prediabetes: An Adaptive Trial.Diabetes care · 2022Article
- Lifestyle treatment in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: predictors of weight loss and dropout.Brain and behavior · 2022Article
- Primary care clinicians' perspectives on clinical decision support to enhance outcomes of online obesity treatment in primary care: A qualitative formative evaluation.Journal of technology in behavioral science · 2021Article
- Early Physical Activity Adoption Predicts Longer-Term Physical Activity Among Individuals Inactive at Baseline.Journal of physical activity & health · 2020Article
- DIAL now protocol: A randomized trial examining the provision of phone coaching to those with sub-optimal early weight loss during an Internet weight management program.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Remotely Delivered Interventions for Obesity Treatment.Current obesity reports · 2019Review
- Factors associated with early non-response within an Internet-based behavioural weight loss program.Obesity science & practice · 2019Article
- Early predictors of weight loss in a 1-year behavioural weight-loss programme.Obesity science & practice · 2018Article
- Initial Weight Loss Response as an Indicator for Providing Early Rescue Efforts to Improve Long-term Treatment Outcomes.Current diabetes reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
This study examined whether providing additional support to individuals with poor initial weight loss improves 12-week outcomes. Participants were randomized to a 12-week internet-delivered behavioral weight loss program (IBWL; n = 50) or the identical internet program plus the possibility of extra support (IBWL + ES; n = 50). IBWL + ES participants losing <2.3% at Week 4 (early non-responders; n = 12) received one individual meeting and two follow-up phone calls with an interventionist, and were compared to IBWL 'early non-responders' who did not receive extra support (n = 21), and to 'early responders' in both treatment arms (i.e., 4-week weight loss ≥2.3%; n = 59). IBWL + ES early non-responders had greater program adherence (p's < 0.055) and lost twice as much weight (p = 0.036) compared to IBWL early non-responders. Program adherence did not differ between early responders and IBWL + ES early non-responders. However, 12-week weight loss was greater in the early responders compared to both early non-responder groups (p's > 0.05). Providing additional intervention to early non-responders in an Internet program improves treatment outcomes.
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