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| Title |
Study protocol: the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a brief behavioural intervention to promote regular self-weighing to prevent weight regain after weight loss: randomised controlled trial (The LIMIT Study)
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-015-1869-0 |
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| Authors |
Claire D Madigan, Kate Jolly, Andrea Roalfe, Amanda L Lewis, Laura Webber, Paul Aveyard, Amanda J Daley |
| Abstract |
Although obesity causes many adverse health consequences, modest weight loss reduces the incidence. There are effective interventions that help people to lose weight but weight regain is common and long term maintenance remains a critical challenge. As a high proportion of the population of most high and middle income countries are overweight, there are many people who would benefit from weight loss and its maintenance. Therefore, we need to find effective low cost scalable interventions to help people achieve this. One such intervention that has shown promise is regular self-weighing, to check progress against a target, however there is no trial that has tested this using a randomised controlled design (RCT). The aim of this RCT is to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a brief behavioural intervention delivered by non-specialist staff to promote regular self-weighing to prevent weight regain after intentional weight loss. A randomised trial of 560 adults who have lost ≥5 % of their initial body weight through a 12 week weight loss programme. The comparator group receive a weight maintenance leaflet, a diagram representing healthy diet composition, and a list of websites for weight control. The intervention group receive the same plus minimally trained telephonists will ask participants to set a weight target and encourage them to weigh themselves daily, and provide support materials such as a weight record card. The primary outcome is the difference between groups in weight change from baseline to 12 months. If effective, this study will provide public health agencies with a simple, low cost maintenance intervention that could be implemented immediately. ISRCTN52341938 Date Registered: 31/03/2014. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 30% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| Australia | 1 | 10% |
| Canada | 1 | 10% |
| Austria | 1 | 10% |
| Guernsey | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 1 | 10% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 50% |
| Scientists | 3 | 30% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 97 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 19 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 16% |
| Unknown | 25 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 20% |
| Psychology | 13 | 13% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 13 | 13% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 5 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 14% |
| Unknown | 31 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 April 2023.
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#3,922,749
of 23,760,369 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#4,310
of 15,447 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,280
of 268,406 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#70
of 229 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 15,447 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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