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Motivations for weight loss in adolescents with overweight and obesity: a systematic review.
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- Mobile health (m-health) smartphone interventions for adolescents and adults with overweight or obesity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Boys and girls differ in their rationale behind eating: a systematic review of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations in dietary habits across countries.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Improving Children's Lifestyle and Quality of Life through Synchronous Online Education: The Nutritional Adventures School-Based Program.Nutrients · 2023Trial
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- Adolescent and parental views on weight and weight management: a qualitative study.Archives of disease in childhood · 2025Article
- Motivators and Barriers to Seeking Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Among Adolescents: A Qualitative Study.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- Beliefs underlying weight control behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults living with obesity: an elicitation qualitative study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors according to the Status of Combustible Cigarette and Noncombustible Nicotine or Tobacco Product Use among Korean Adolescents with Experience Attempting to Reduce or Maintain Their Body Weight: The 15th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2019.Korean journal of family medicine · 2024Article
- Association between Body Mass Index and Externalizing and Internalizing Symptoms among Chinese Adolescents: Mediating Role of Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Victimization.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Body weight modification experience among adolescents from Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Relationships examined: Parent and child readiness to change and sociodemographic characteristics in family based weight loss treatment.Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Secular Trend of Self-Concept in the Context of Childhood Obesity-Data from the CHILT III Programme, Cologne.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdolescents with overweight and obesity report various motivations for weight loss other than the desire for better health. However, there is little evidence regarding the main motivations for weight loss in adolescents. The present systematic review aimed to identify the motivations for weight loss in adolescents with overweight and obesity.
methodsA systematic search for original articles published up to December 2016 was carried out in the PubMed, Scopus, LILACS, and ADOLEC databases. The terms used in the search were: motivation, motive, reason, "weight loss," "lose weight," and adolescent.
resultsSix studies (all cross-sectional) met the selection criteria and were included in the review. The instruments used to assess the participants' motivations for weight loss were interviews and questionnaires with open questions. Seventeen motivations for weight loss were identified, the main ones being better health, esthetic/cosmetic reasons, improvements in self-esteem, and avoidance of provocation/bullying.
conclusionsThe results of the present review show the need for validated instruments to assess the motivations for weight loss in adolescents with overweight and obesity. Moreover, the high frequency of motivations for weight loss related to appearance and social acceptance evidences the need for multidisciplinary weight loss interventions that consider not only the biological factors, but also the psychological and social aspects.
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