ArticleEndocrine2018
A path model analysis on predictors of dropout (at 6 and 12 months) during the weight loss interventions in endocrinology outpatient division.
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- Dropout in cognitive behavioral treatment in adults living with overweight and obesity: a systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Barriers and facilitators to dietary change while aiming to reduce free sugar intakes: framework analysis based on intervention, time for change, and success at 12 weeks.Journal of nutritional science · 2026Trial
- A Remotely Delivered Weight Management Service to Support Existing Obesity Services in the UK National Health Service: Preliminary Findings From an Early-Stage Service Evaluation.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Survival analysis for predicting fitness app user churn.mHealth · 2025Article
- No medication prescription and residential distance from the hospital are important factors associated with nonsurgical weight-loss treatment discontinuance in Japanese patients with high-degree obesity: a retrospective study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- A clinically managed weight loss program evaluation and the impact of COVID-19.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Predicting Attrition Patterns from Pediatric Weight Management Programs.Proceedings of machine learning research · 2022Article
- Two, Six, and Twelve-Month Dropout Rate and Predictor Factors After a Multidisciplinary Residential Program for Obesity Treatment. A Prospective Cohort Study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Predictors of attrition from a weight loss program. A study of adult patients with obesity in a community setting.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionThis study aimed to identify the dropout rate at 6 and 12 months from the first outpatient visit, and to analyze dropout risk factors among the following areas: biochemical examinations, anthropometric measures, psychological tests, personal data, and life attitude such as smoking, physical activity, and pathologies.
methodsThis is a retrospective longitudinal observational study. Patients undergo an outpatient endocrinology visit, which includes collecting biographical data, anthropometric measurements, physical and pathological history, psychological tests, and biochemical examinations.
resultsThe sample consists of 913 subjects (682 women and 231 men), with an average age of 50.88 years (±15.80) for the total sample, with a BMI of 33.11 ± 5.65 kg/m
conclusionsThe main factor that predisposes patients to continue therapy or to abandon it is the success (or failure) of the diet in the initial period, based on weight lost (or not lost) in the early months of the initiation of therapy. Furthermore, considerable differences were found in different categories of "workers", and with previous "pathologies". The level of physical activity and previous diseases also seem to be predictors of dropout.
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