Pragmatic Implementation of Online Obesity Treatment and Maintenance Interventions in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Behavioral weight loss interventions have achieved success in primary care; however, to our knowledge, pragmatic implementation of a fully automated treatment that requires little researcher oversight has not been tested. Moreover, weight loss maintenance remains a challenge.

Objective

To evaluate the long-term effectiveness of an automated, online, behavioral obesity treatment program (Rx Weight Loss [RxWL]) at 12 months (primary end point) and 24 months when delivered pragmatically in primary care and to compare the effectiveness of 3 weight loss maintenance approaches.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial of RxWL, an online weight loss program, recruited patients from a Rhode Island primary care network with approximately 60 p

SUBMITTER: Thomas JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10928540 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature