Understanding Primary Care Patients' Self-weighing Habits: Cohort Analysis from the PaTH Clinical Data Research Network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Greater than 60% of adults have overweight or obesity. Self-weighing is an effective weight loss and weight maintenance tool. However, little is known about self-weighing habits among the primary care patient population. Our objective was to examine the frequency of patient-reported self-weighing, and to evaluate the associations of self-weighing with demographic characteristics and self-monitoring behaviors.

Methods

We conducted an analysis of survey data collected as part of the PaTH Clinical Data Research Network, which recruited a cohort of 1,021 primary care patients at 4 academic medical centers. Patients of all body mass index (BMI) categories were included.

Results

Response rate of 6-month survey was 727 (71%). The mean age was 56 years, and most we

SUBMITTER: Bramante CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature