Behavior-Specific Cognitions Moderate Rural Women's Responsiveness to Web-Based Interventions for Weight Loss.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether baseline behavior-specific cognitions moderated the effects of 2 Web-based interventions with enhanced features on weight loss success in rural women.

Design

Secondary analysis of behavior-specific cognition data from a community-based, randomized controlled trial, as potential moderators of weight loss over 30 months.

Participants

Women, overweight or obese, from rural communities, aged 40-69 years (n = 200).

Interventions

Theory-based Web interventions, with enhanced features of either peer-led Web discussion or professional e-mail counseling.

Main outcome measures

Benefits and barriers to healthy eating and activity; self-efficacy and interpersonal support for healthy eating and activity using validated surveys; and weight

SUBMITTER: Kupzyk KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9154085 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature