The mind your health project: a randomized controlled trial of an innovative behavioral treatment for obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether acceptance-based behavioral treatment (ABT) would result in greater weight loss than standard behavioral treatment (SBT), and whether treatment effects were moderated by interventionist expertise or participants' susceptibility to eating cues. Recent research suggests that poor long-term weight-control outcomes are due to lapses in adherence to weight-control behaviors and that adherence might be improved by enhancing SBT with acceptance-based behavioral strategies.

Design and methods

Overweight participants (n = 128) were randomly assigned to 40 weeks of SBT or ABT.

Results

Both groups produced significant weight loss, and when administered by experts, weight loss was significantly higher in ABT than SBT at post-treatment (13.17% vs. 7.

SUBMITTER: Forman EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3735809 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature