Individual empowerment in overweight and obese patients: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Obesity is a growing health problem in Europe and it causes many diseases. Many weight-reducing methods are reported in medical literature, but none of them proved to be effective in maintaining the results achieved over time. Self-empowerment can be an important innovative method, but an effectiveness study is necessary. In order to standardise the procedures for a randomised controlled study, a pilot study will be run to observe, measure and evaluate the effects of a period of self-empowerment group treatment on overweight/obese patients.

Methods

and analysis Non-controlled, experimental, pilot study. A selected group of patients with body mass index >25, with no severe psychiatric disorders, with no aesthetic or therapeutic motivation will be included in the

SUBMITTER: Struzzo P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3657655 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature