Trial reportAppetite2017
Not so fast: The impact of impulsivity on weight loss varies by treatment type.
Trial report in Appetite, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- The association of impulsivity with effects of the ChooseWell 365 workplace nudge intervention on diet and weight.Translational behavioral medicine · 2023Trial
- Pilot Trial of Acceptance-Based Behavioral Weight Loss and Neurocognition Among American Indians.Behavior therapy · 2021Trial
- Executive Functioning as a Predictor of Weight Loss and Physical Activity Outcomes.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
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- Evaluating an acceptance-based lifestyle modification program to address cardiovascular disease risk among adolescent girls with overweight and obesity: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2024Article
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- Relation of BOLD response to food-specific and generic motor response inhibition tasks to body fat gain in adults with overweight and obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Reward and inhibition in obesity and cigarette smoking: Neurobiological overlaps and clinical implications.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Baseline associations between biomarkers, cognitive function, and self-regulation indices in the Cognitive and Self-regulatory Mechanisms of Obesity Study.Obesity science & practice · 2021Article
- Targeting executive function for weight loss in adults with overweight or obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2021Article
- Delay discounting and obesity in food insecure and food secure women.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Article
- Episodic future thinking, delay discounting, and exercise during weight loss maintenance: The PACE trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Exploring Changes in Event-Related Potentials After a Feasibility Trial of Inhibitory Training for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Self-regulation and obesity: the role of executive function and delay discounting in the prediction of weight loss.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2018Article
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- Executive function in childhood obesity: Promising intervention strategies to optimize treatment outcomes.Appetite · 2018Review
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Abstract
Behavioral weight loss (BWL) treatments result in suboptimal weight losses for many individuals. Impulsivity appears to be a maintenance factor of obesity, yet few studies have examined impulsivity as a predictor of outcomes from BWL. We examined specific facets of impulsivity (inhibitory control and delay discounting) as moderators of outcome in BWL. Overweight adults (n = 190) were randomized to standard behavioral treatment (SBT) or acceptance-based behavioral treatment (ABT). We hypothesized that impulsivity would be inversely associated with weight loss, and that the association between impulsivity and outcome would be attenuated in the ABT condition. Poorer general inhibitory control predicted lower percent weight lost at 12 months across conditions at the trend level (b = -0.003, p = 0.06). The negative impact of low inhibitory control on weight loss was attenuated by assignment to ABT versus SBT (b = 0.004, p = 0.03). Treatment condition, at trend level, also moderated the impact of delay discounting (b = -0.011, p = .098) and food-specific inhibitory control (b = 0.003, p = 0.06) on percent weight loss such that those with greater impulsivity benefitted most from ABT. Results reveal a potential pattern that impulsivity reduces benefit derived from SBT but not ABT. Further research on the moderating effect of impulsivity is necessary to inform the development of targeted treatments for clinically meaningful subtypes of patients.
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