Participant experiences of two successful habit-based weight-loss interventions in Australia: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Habit-based weight-loss interventions have shown clinically important weight loss and weight-loss maintenance. Understanding why habit-based interventions work is therefore of great value, but there is little qualitative evidence about the experiences of participants in such programmes. We explored the perspectives of individuals who completed two habit-based weight-management programmes, Ten Top Tips and Do Something Different. DESIGN:One-on-one, face-to-face, semistructured interviews were conducted and analysed thematically. SETTING:Participants from the community were interviewed at Bond University, Australia. PARTICIPANTS:Using a maximum variation design, we recruited 15 participants (eight men, seven women) aged 39-69 years (mean 53.3 years, SD 10.3) with a range of educat

SUBMITTER: Cleo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5988089 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature