Adherence
Online guided self-help interventions using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for weight maintenance following prior weight loss programs offer cost-effective value for the NHS, with optimal trial designs showing significant expected net benefits.
If you have completed a weight loss program, look for online guided self-help programs that use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). These digital tools are designed to help you maintain your weight loss long-term and are increasingly recognized as cost-effective for healthcare systems.
Investment in a large RCT to evaluate the SWiM intervention for patients completing a range of weight loss interventions offers the greatest value to the NHS.
Why this rating
Based on a health economic model and expert elicitation, not a full-scale RCT result.
Source
Assessing the value for money, from a policy maker perspective, of 24 randomised controlled trial designs for an online weight maintenance guided self-help intervention: an expected value of sample information analysis
Penny Breeze et al. · International Journal of Obesity · 2025
DOI 10.1038/s41366-025-01804-7
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