Effectiveness of weight management interventions for adults delivered in primary care: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the effectiveness of behavioural weight management interventions for adults with obesity delivered in primary care.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Eligibility criteria for selection of studies

Randomised controlled trials of behavioural weight management interventions for adults with a body mass index ≥25 delivered in primary care compared with no treatment, attention control, or minimal intervention and weight change at ≥12 months follow-up.

Data sources

Trials from a previous systematic review were extracted and the search completed using the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Medline, PubMed, and PsychINFO from 1 January 2018 to 19 August 2021.

Data extraction and synthesis

SUBMITTER: Madigan CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9150078 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature