SynthesisHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2018
Weight management programmes: Re-analysis of a systematic review to identify pathways to effectiveness.
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- Evaluation of the Aspects of Digital Interventions That Successfully Support Weight Loss: Systematic Review With Component Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis of exercise interventions for fall prevention in residential aged care facilities.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- The use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to address causality in complex systems: a systematic review of research on public health interventions.BMC public health · 2021Pooled it
- The importance of service-users' perspectives: A systematic review of qualitative evidence reveals overlooked critical features of weight management programmes.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2018Pooled it
- Weight management programmes: Re-analysis of a systematic review to identify pathways to effectiveness.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2018Pooled it
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- The Influence of Relationships Within Behavioral Weight Management Interventions: An Overview.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Review
- Perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing a weight management programme in a primary care setting in Singapore: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- The use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in child well-being research: a scoping review of research on child well-being research and interventions.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring effective implementation pathways to become an excellent chief financial officer in public hospital: a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) from China.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Educational interventions targeting pregnant women to optimise the use of caesarean section: What are the essential elements? A qualitative comparative analysis.BMC public health · 2023Article
- What is the volume, diversity and nature of recent, robust evidence for the use of peer support in health and social care? An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2022Review
- 'Leading from the front' implementation increases the success of influenza vaccination drives among healthcare workers: a reanalysis of systematic review evidence using Intervention Component Analysis (ICA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Weight management strategies in Middle-Aged Women (MAW): Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the Oxford Food and Activity Behaviors Taxonomy (OxFAB-MAW) in a Portuguese sample.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- What a weight loss programme should contain if people with obesity were asked - a qualitative analysis within the DO:IT study.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Developing methods for the overarching synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence: The interweave synthesis approach.Research synthesis methods · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious systematic reviews of weight management programmes (WMPs) have not been able to account for heterogeneity of effectiveness within programmes using top-down behavioural change taxonomies. This could be due to overlapping causal pathways to effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) in these complex interventions. Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) can help identify these overlapping pathways.
methodsUsing trials of adult WMPs with dietary and physical activity components identified from a previous systematic review, we selected the 10 most and 10 least effective interventions by amount of weight loss at 12 months compared to minimal treatment. Using intervention components suggested by synthesis of studies of programme user views, we labelled interventions as to the presence of these components and, using qualitative comparative analysis, developed pathways of component combinations that created the conditions sufficient for interventions to be most effective and least effective.
resultsInformed by the synthesis of views studies, we constructed 3 truth tables relating to quality of the user-provider relationship; perceived high need for guidance from providers; and quality of the relationship between peers in weight management programmes. We found effective interventions were characterized by opportunities to develop supportive relationships with providers or peers, directive provider-led goal setting and components perceived to foster self-regulation.
conclusionsAlthough QCA is an inductive method, this innovative approach has enabled the identification of potentially critical aspects of WMPs, such as the nature of relationships within them, which were previously not considered to be as important as more concrete content such as dietary focus.
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