The effects of a clinic-based weight loss program on health-related quality of life and weight maintenance in cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The Healthy Living and Eating After Cancer Trial demonstrated that a clinic-based weight loss program reduced body weight, as compared with a waitlist control group, over 15 weeks. Here we report the impact of the weight loss intervention on health-related quality-of-life outcomes at week 15, and maintenance of weight loss to week 30.

Methods

This trial randomized cancer survivors of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies (breast cancer: 76.7%) to a 15-week group-based weight loss program (n = 30) or a waitlist control group (n = 30). Participants were not blinded to group assignment. Participants completed a variety of health-related quality-of-life outcome measures at baseline and week 15. From week 15 to week 30, participants initially randomized to the weigh

SUBMITTER: Brown JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9208929 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature