Provider Counseling and Weight Loss Outcomes in a Primary Care-Based Digital Obesity Treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary care-based digital health weight loss interventions offer promise for addressing obesity in underserved populations.

Objectives

To determine if primary care providers' weight counseling is associated with weight change during a weight loss intervention.

Design

This is a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial testing a 12-month primary care-based digital health weight loss intervention.

Participants

Participants were community health center patients with body mass indexes of 30-44.9 kg/m².

Interventions

The weight loss intervention included tailored behavioral goal setting; weekly goal monitoring via text messaging or interactive voice response calls; counseling calls; skills training material; and participant-tail

SUBMITTER: McVay M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544687 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature