Can certified health professionals treat obesity in a community-based programme? A quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the effectiveness of a non-pharmaceutical programme for obese participants in a rural Eastern Canadian Province using certified health professionals.

Design

A prospective quasi-experimental design with repeated premeasure and postmeasure.

Participants

146 participants with obesity (body mass index >30 kg/m(2)) from rural and urban communities in an Eastern Canadian Province were divided into four groups.

Intervention

A 6-month intensive active community-based lifestyle intervention (InI) delivered by Certified Exercise Physiologists, Certified Personal Trainers and Registered Dietitians, followed by 6 months of self-management. A second intervention (InII) was nested in InI and consisted of group-mediated cognitive-behavioral intervention (GMC

SUBMITTER: Miedema B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322212 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature