Sex as a Moderator of Adolescents' Weight Loss Treatment Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Weight loss treatments targeting adolescents often occur in mixed-sex contexts and produce variable outcomes. Sex considerations may be of particular importance, especially given differences in social relating. This study aggregated data from two randomized controlled trials of a peer-enhanced intervention compared with a standard cognitive-behavioral weight loss intervention to test the hypothesis that adolescent girls may demonstrate greater benefit than boys from a peer-enhanced weight loss intervention.

Methods

Participants were 193 adolescents with overweight/obesity (age M = 14.4 years, standard deviation = .99) from two randomized clinical trials comparing a peer-enhanced intervention with an active cognitive-behavioral weight loss intervention. Adolescents' p

SUBMITTER: Rancourt D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6613540 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature