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- Title
Predicting program attendance and weight loss in obesity interventions: Do triggering events help?
- Authors
Borgatti, Alena; Tang, Ziting; Tan, Fei; Salvy, Sarah-Jeanne; Dutton, Gareth
- Abstract
Medical events that "trigger" motivation to lose weight may improve treatment outcomes compared to non-medical or no triggering events. However, previous findings include only long-term successful participants, not those initiating treatment. The current study compared those with medical triggering events or non-medical triggering events to no triggering events on attendance and weight loss during a weight management program. Medical-triggering-event participants lost 1.8 percent less weight (p = 0.03) than no-triggering-event participants. Non-medical-triggering-event participants attended 1.45 more sessions (p = 0.04) and were 1.83 times more likely to complete the program (p = 0.03) than no-triggering-event participants. These findings fail to support the benefit of medical triggering events when beginning treatment for obesity.
- Subjects
OBESITY treatment; REGULATION of body weight; MOTIVATION (Psychology); GOVERNMENT programs; TREATMENT effectiveness; WEIGHT loss; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
Journal of Health Psychology, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 11, p2056
- ISSN
1359-1053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1359105319887800