How prescriptive support affects weight loss in weight-loss intervention participants and their untreated spouses.
Talea CorneliusKatelyn GettensErin LenzAlexis C WojtanowskiGary D FosterAmy A GorinPublished in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2018)
Considering both the type and context of support for weight management is worthwhile. Intervention participants had access to treatment resources that may have engendered more effective responses to spouses' concerns or a sense of obligation to their spouse (indirect social control), whereas pressures to lose weight-while engaged in treatment-may have undermined behavior-change efforts. (PsycINFO Database Record