African-American Adolescents' Weight Loss Skills Utilization: Effects on Weight Change in a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Successful weight loss interventions for African-Americans adolescents are lacking. Cognitive-behavioral interventions seek to develop weight loss skills (e.g., counting calories, goal setting, managing one's environment). Little is known about how well adolescents implement such skills in their daily lives. Study aims were to (1) examine weight loss skills utilization at midpoint and end of a 6-month cognitive-behavioral/motivational interviewing weight loss sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART), and (2) determine if greater skill utilization predicted weight loss at treatment end and 3 months post-treatment.

Method

One hundred and eighty six African-Americans adolescents with obesity and their caregiver were first randomly assigned to complete 3

SUBMITTER: Jacques-Tiura AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6996585 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature