Associations of internet website use with weight change in a long-term weight loss maintenance program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Weight Loss Maintenance Trial (WLM) compared two long-term weight-maintenance interventions, a personal contact arm and an Internet arm, with a no-treatment control after an initial six-month Phase I weight loss program. The Internet arm focused on use of an interactive website for support of long-term weight maintenance. There is limited information about patterns of website use and specific components of an interactive website that might help promote maintenance of weight loss.

Objective

This paper presents a secondary analysis of the subset of participants in the Internet arm and focuses on website use patterns and features associated with long-term weight maintenance.

Methods

Adults at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) who lost at least 4 kilogr

SUBMITTER: Funk KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2956327 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature