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Three‐year follow‐up data in overweight treatment
Author(s) -
Hautzinger Martin
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.6120360225
Subject(s) - weight loss , overweight , weight control , body weight , psychology , kilogram , physical therapy , medicine , obesity
Reassessed 3 years after the termination of a weight reduction program the body weight of former participants to control long‐term efficiency of behavior‐oriented weight reduction programs. Of 31 former participants, 21 could be rechecked. Most of the S s stabilized their body weight or continued to reduce weight. Only 4 S s regained weight over the 3‐year period. On an average, the group of former S s lost 4.4 kilograms over the follow‐up period. The whole reduction (therapy time and follow‐up) resulted in 11.3 kilograms. These results are encouraging, but difficult to discuss because no member of the former control group could be reassessed after 3 years and 10 S s of the former therapy‐groups could not be motivated to renewed collaboration. However, these results support the behavior‐oriented approach to weight reduction and give evidence for the stabilizing function of such a therapy.