Weighing frequency among working adults: cross-sectional analysis of two community samples.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Self-weighing frequency is associated with lower body weight and less weight gain. This study describes self-weighing frequency in two samples of working adults from different fields: office-based and transit employees.

Methods

Self-weighing frequency and demographic information were self-reported at baseline measurement of two worksite interventions. Data were collected from transit employees (n= 1479) enrolled in a worksite intervention between October and December of 2005 and office based employees (n=1747) in another worksite intervention between January 2006 and April 2007 in the Minneapolis, MN and St. Paul, MN metropolitan area. Trained staff measured height and weight. Multinomial logistic regression models examined associations between self-weighing freque

SUBMITTER: Gavin KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4314712 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature