ArticleBMC public health2018
Perceived barriers and facilitators of initiation of behavioral weight loss interventions among adults with obesity: a qualitative study.
Article in BMC public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01973972 (Jump Starting Shared Medical Appointments for Diabetes With Weight Management), which is not on this map. Cited by 43 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Jump Starting Shared Medical Appointments for Diabetes With Weight Management
Who cites it
43 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Health Care Professionals' Barriers and Facilitators for the Implementation of Lifestyle Interventions Targeting Weight Loss in Primary Care - A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies.Current obesity reports · 2026Pooled it
- Prioritizing Clinically Relevant Criteria for Longitudinal Obesity Management: A Systemic Framework to Support Decision-Making.Obesity surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Trial
- A web-based intervention to increase weight loss treatment initiation: results of a cluster randomized feasibility and acceptability trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Real-World Evidence for Existing Anti-Obesity Therapies-The Realities of Treatment Adherence, Tolerability, Access and Patient Satisfaction.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Review
- Understanding Factors Which Help and Hinder Engagement with Weight Management Interventions and Related Research.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Perceived Barriers for Physical Activity in Overweight and Obese Youth: A Scoping Review.Health science reports · 2026Review
- Automated Physical Activity Support for Adults and Youth From Low-Income Communities: Single-Arm Pilot Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- Logic model development through a feasibility RCT for a group-based weight management programme.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Protocol for a pilot RCT investigating a weight loss navigation program for adults.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Perceived barriers and facilitators to engagement and behavioral enactment in weight management interventions among racial and ethnic minorities.Discover public health · 2026Article
- Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Engagement and Behavioral Enactment in Weight Management Interventions Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities.Research square · 2025Article
- Patient Perspectives on Weight Management and Wellness After Liver Transplantation: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study.The Journal of surgical research · 2025Article
- A brief online tool to increase behavioral weight loss treatment initiation: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- ACTION Malaysia-perception and barriers to obesity management among people with obesity and healthcare professionals in Malaysia.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Exploring potential reach and representativeness of a self-weighing weight gain prevention intervention in adults with overweight and obesity.Clinical obesity · 2024Article
- A low-burden, self-weighing intervention to prevent weight gain in adults with obesity who do not enroll in comprehensive treatment.Obesity science & practice · 2024Article
- Article
- "For me, it is for longevity and making sure I am fit and around for my children": exploring motivations and barriers for weight management among minoritised communities in Medway, England.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Acceptability and Usability of a Theory-Driven Intervention via Email to Promote Physical Activity in Women Who Are Overweight or Obese: Substudy Within a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundEvidence-based behavioral weight loss interventions are under-utilized. To inform efforts to increase uptake of these interventions, it is important to understand the perspectives of adults with obesity regarding barriers and facilitators of weight loss intervention initiation.
methodsWe conducted a qualitative study in adults with obesity who had recently attempted weight loss either with assistance from an evidence-based behavioral intervention (intervention initiators) or without use of a formal intervention (intervention non-initiators). We recruited primary care patients, members of a commercial weight loss program, and members of a Veterans Affairs weight loss program. Intervention initiators and non-initiators were interviewed separately using a semi-structured interview guide that asked participants about barriers and facilitators of weight loss intervention initiation. Conversations were audio-recorded and transcribed. Data were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Two researchers used open coding to generate the code book on a subset of transcripts and a single researcher coded remaining transcripts. Codes were combined into subthemes, which were combined in to higher order themes. Intervention initiators and non-initiators were compared.
resultsWe conducted three focus groups with participants who had initiated interventions (n = 26) and three focus groups (n = 24) and 8 individual interviews with participants who had not initiated interventions. Intervention initiators and non-initiators were, respectively, 65% and 37.5% white, 62% and 63% female, mean age of 55 and 54 years old, and mean BMI of 34 kg/m
conclusionsStrategies to engage individuals in evidence-based weight loss interventions can be developed using these results. Strategies could target individuals' perceived barriers and benefits to initiating interventions, or could focus on refining interventions to appeal to more individuals.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.