Mediators of Weight Loss Maintenance in the Keep It Off Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An important step toward enhancing the efficacy of weight loss maintenance interventions is identifying the pathways through which successful interventions such as the Keep It Off trial have worked.

Purpose

This study aimed to assess the viability of mediated relationships between the Keep It Off Guided intervention, conceptually and empirically grounded potential mediators, and weight. Repeated measurement of mediators and weight enabled documentation of the temporal ordering of intervention delivery and changes in mediators and in weight among participants randomized to the Guided intervention or Self-Directed comparison group.

Methods

Total, direct, and indirect effects of the Guided intervention on weight change were calculated and tested for significan

SUBMITTER: Crain AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5685932 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature