ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2022
Effects of 6-month episodic future thinking training on delay discounting, weight loss and HbA1c changes in individuals with prediabetes.
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- Differential signaling effects of blood glucose on delay discounting in individuals with and without type 1 diabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
- Examining the association between delay discounting, delay aversion and physical activity in Chinese adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus.World journal of diabetes · 2024Article
- Parents, but not their children, demonstrate greater delay discounting with resource scarcity.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Disrupting future discounting: a commentary on an underutilised psychological approach for improving adherence to diet and physical activity interventions.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Time and risk preferences and the perceived effectiveness of incentives to comply with diabetic retinopathy screening among older adults with type 2 diabetes.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Putting prospection into practice: Methodological considerations in the use of episodic future thinking to reduce delay discounting and maladaptive health behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Episodic Future Thinking: A Behavioral Intervention to Promote Weight Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors (Alliance A21-Pilot10).JCO oncology advancesArticle
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People with prediabetes are at risk for type 2 diabetes. They may discount the future delay discounting (DD), and not engage in preventive health behaviors. Episodic future thinking (EFT) can reduce DD when future scenarios are cued, but research is needed to assess long-term effects of EFT and when EFT is not cued. This study tested EFT training compared to control for people with prediabetes enrolled in a 6-month weight loss program on DD, weight, HbA1c, and physical activity. Results showed a reliable EFT effect on reducing DD in cued (p = 0.0035), and uncued DD tasks (p = 0.048), and significant overall changes in weight (p < 0.001), HbA1c (p, 0.001) and physical activity (p = 0.003), but no significant differences in these outcomes by group (p's > 0.05). Sixty-eight percent of the sample ended below the prediabetes HbA1c range. These results suggest that DD can be modified over extended periods, and the effects of EFT can be observed without EFT cues. However, these data do not suggest that changes in weight, HbA1c or physical activity were due to EFT training. The study was initiated before the COVID-19 pandemic which provided the opportunity to compare differences for people treated in-person or remotely. Analyses showed no differences in DD, weight, HBA1c or physical activity outcomes were observed between in-person and remote treatment, suggesting telehealth is a scalable approach to treating prediabetes.
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