Depressive symptom severity as a predictor of attendance in the HOME behavioral weight loss trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined whether total depressive symptoms and symptom clusters predicted behavioral weight loss attendance among economically disadvantaged adults in a randomized controlled trial.

Methods

150 adults with obesity were randomized to 12 months of in-person, video conference, or enhanced usual care weight loss groups. We categorized percent session attendance in the intervention arms into three levels: no attendance, poorer attendance, and better attendance.

Results

Higher baseline Patient Health Questionnaire-8 (PHQ-8) score was associated with a greater odds of being in the poorer versus better attendance group (OR = 1.94, 95% CI: 1.02-3.69, p = .04). A similar relationship between PHQ-8 score and odds of being in the no attendance versus better attendanc

SUBMITTER: Shell AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7429242 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature