Healthy Weight for Life programme: Evaluating the practice and effectiveness of a weight loss maintenance programme in the private health insurance setting.
Bronwyn McGillBlythe J O'HaraAnne C GrunseitAdrian BaumanLuke LawlerPhilayrath PhongsavanPublished in: SAGE open medicine (2019)
The evaluation will comprise a number of inter-related sub-studies balancing evaluation of programme effectiveness and implementation. The maintenance programme presented a unique opportunity for researchers to partner with private health insurance and a service provider to assess a real-world programme in the under-researched area of weight loss maintenance in this setting and emphasises the importance of evaluating such programmes given the potential the private health insurance context has in the future delivery of health care.
Keyphrases
- health insurance
- weight loss
- healthcare
- affordable care act
- study protocol
- primary care
- randomized controlled trial
- bariatric surgery
- roux en y gastric bypass
- systematic review
- mental health
- quality improvement
- glycemic control
- hepatitis c virus
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- human health
- antiretroviral therapy
- case control