ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2017
Back to Basics? No Weight Loss from Motivational Interviewing Compared to Nutrition Psychoeducation at One-Year Follow-Up.
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- A systematic mapping review of individual participant factors related to eating disorder risk collected in behavioural weight management trials.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Weight regain and mental health outcomes following behavioural weight management programmes: A systematic review with meta-analyses.Clinical obesity · 2023Pooled it
- An Interventional Study Exploring the Effects of Nutritional Psychoeducation on Emotional Eating After 3 Months.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Trial
- 12 Months later: Motivational interviewing plus nutrition psychoeducation for weight loss in primary care.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Trial
- Getting a head start: identifying pretreatment correlates associated with early weight loss for individuals participating in weight loss treatment.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Mobile Delivery of the Diabetes Prevention Program in People With Prediabetes: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- Unpacking weight management interventions measuring eating disorder risk in adults: coding of components of interventions in a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- The impact of weight loss interventions on disordered eating symptoms in people with overweight and obesity: a systematic review & meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
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- The Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Conversational Agents (Chatbots) for Weight Loss: Scoping Review and Practical Recommendations.JMIR medical informatics · 2022Article
- Early weight loss predicts weight loss treatment response regardless of binge-eating disorder status and pretreatment weight change.The International journal of eating disorders · 2018Article
- Examining motivational interviewing plus nutrition psychoeducation for weight loss in primary care.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2018Article
- Loss-of-control eating after bariatric/sleeve gastrectomy surgery: Similar to binge-eating disorder despite differences in quantities.General hospital psychiatryArticle
- Characterizing emotional overeating among patients with and without binge-eating disorder in primary care.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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objectiveWeight loss interventions have begun to receive increasing attention in primary care. Motivational interviewing (MI) is compatible with primary care because it requires relatively limited time and resources. Few studies, however, have examined the long-term impact of MI for weight loss in primary care, and none have used attention-control comparisons. This study was the first randomized controlled trial with a 12-month follow-up of two Web-supported interventions: motivational interviewing and internet condition (MIC) and nutrition psychoeducation and internet condition (NPC).
methodsFifty-nine patients with overweight or obesity, with and without binge-eating disorder (BED), were randomized to treatments and assessed at 12-month follow-up after completing 3-month treatments in primary care (15 months total).
resultsMixed models examining weight loss at 12 months revealed a group and time interaction effect trend (P = 0.054; d' = 0.57). Secondary end point analysis showed a decrease (-1.7%) versus an increase (1.3%) in weight at 12 months among NPC and MIC patients, respectively (P = 0.056; d' = 0.57). Overall, 5 of 44 (11.4%) participants lost or maintained 5% weight losses; differences between treatments were not significant. BED status did not impact weight loss.
conclusionsTwo brief and scalable weight loss interventions resulted in small effect sizes for weight loss 12 months following treatment conclusion. Because MIC required significantly more resources for adequate implementation, NPC may be more cost-effective.
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