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Patients identified three risks associated with obesity treatment.
Understanding these risks can help healthcare providers address patient concerns and improve treatment uptake.
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Patients identified three risks associated with obesity treatment: (a) the risk that they can’t access treatment; (b) the risk that they would fail to meet treatment expectations – their own, their HCPs and societal expectations, and (c) the risk that the treatment would be ‘successful’ but that they would lose their sense of self, their coping mechanisms and identity along with weight.
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Based on qualitative study design with focus groups.
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“What would be left of me?” Patient perspectives on the risks of obesity treatment: An innovative health initiative stratification of obesity phenotypes to optimise future obesity therapy (IMI2 SOPHIA) qualitative study
E. P. Farrell et al. · Obesity Pillars · 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.obpill.2024.100129
qualitative study · n=30Cited 3×
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