A motivation-focused weight loss maintenance program is an effective alternative to a skill-based approach.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Maintaining weight loss is a major challenge in obesity treatment. Individuals often indicate that waning motivation prompts cessation of effective weight management behaviors. Therefore, a novel weight loss maintenance program that specifically targets motivational factors was evaluated.

Design

Overweight women (N=338; 19% African American) with urinary incontinence were randomized to lifestyle obesity treatment or control and followed for 18 months. All participants in lifestyle (N=226) received the same initial 6-month group behavioral obesity treatment and were then randomized to (1) a novel motivation-focused maintenance program (N=113) or (2) a standard skill-based maintenance approach (N=113).

Main outcome measure

Weight assessed at baseline, 6 and 18

SUBMITTER: West DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2974962 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature