Effects of Intervention Characteristics on Willingness to Initiate a Weight Gain Prevention Program.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine characteristics of weight gain prevention programs that facilitate engagement.

Design

Randomized factorial experiment (5 × 2).

Setting

Recruited nationally online.

Participants

Adults aged 18 to 75 with body mass index ≥25 who decline a behavioral weight loss intervention (n = 498).

Measures

Participants were randomly presented with one of 10 possible descriptions of hypothetical, free weight gain prevention programs that were all low dose and technology-based but differed in regard to 5 behavior change targets (self-weighing only; diet only; physical activity only; combined diet, physical activity, and self-weighing; or choice between diet, physical activity, and self-weighing targets) crossed with 2 financial incentive conditions (

SUBMITTER: McVay MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7679054 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature