ArticleObesity science & practice2019
Patients' reasons for weight loss and their relations to clinical weight loss outcomes in a comprehensive lifestyle intervention.
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- Real-world evidence of characteristics and factors influencing herbal medicine use for weight loss in adults.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Motivating Weight Loss Among Black Adults in Relationships: Recommendations for Weight Loss Interventions.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2023Article
- Patients' reasons for weight loss and their relations to clinical weight loss outcomes in a comprehensive lifestyle intervention.Obesity science & practice · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveResearch suggests that individuals seeking weight loss treatment do so for a variety of reasons. Limited work has explored relations of reasons for weight loss to patient characteristics or to weight loss outcomes. The current study examined these relations.
methodsThe sample consisted of 588 patients in a 15-week fee-for-service weight loss programme. Prior to the intervention, patients completed questionnaires including items on reasons for weight loss, demographic characteristics, and a variety of weight-based characteristics. Patients' weight change outcomes were expressed as percent weight loss and also categorized into one of three previously described weight loss trajectories.
resultsThe results of chi-squared and
conclusionsWhile certain reasons for weight loss were more often cited by certain patient groups, no specific reason predicted a better or worse outcome.
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