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The Shape intervention is cost-effective and can be part of a strategy to address obesity in low-income at-risk communities.
This intervention could be implemented in community health strategies to combat obesity.
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Results suggest that the Shape intervention is cost-effective...indicating that it can be a part of a successful strategy to address the nation’s growing obesity epidemic in low-income at-risk communities.
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Based on a randomized clinical trial.
Source
A Digital Behavioral Weight Gain Prevention Intervention in Primary Care Practice: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (Preprint)
Anirudh Krishnan et al. · 2018
DOI 10.2196/preprints.12201
rct · n=91
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