Baseline Psychosocial and Demographic Factors Associated with Study Attrition and 12-Month Weight Gain in the DIETFITS Trial.
Priya Fielding-SinghMichele L PatelAbby C KingChristopher D GardnerPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2019)
Participants' baseline psychosocial and demographic factors may support or impede successful weight loss. Trialists should attend to these factors when designing treatments in order to promote participants' likelihood of completing the trial and achieving their weight-loss goals.
Keyphrases
- weight loss
- weight gain
- bariatric surgery
- roux en y gastric bypass
- birth weight
- study protocol
- phase iii
- gastric bypass
- phase ii
- body mass index
- clinical trial
- mental health
- glycemic control
- open label
- randomized controlled trial
- type diabetes
- skeletal muscle
- global health
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- gestational age