Adherence
Brief physician-led weight monitoring and advice during routine primary care consultations does not significantly reduce body weight in moderately obese patients compared to usual care.
For moderately obese patients in primary care, simply having their weight checked and receiving brief advice from their doctor during routine visits is not enough to lose weight. While this method is feasible and doesn't extend visit times, it does not produce significant weight loss compared to standard care. Patients and providers should look for more intensive interventions if weight loss is the goal.
In our setting, this method did not extend the consultation time, but also had no significant additional effects on body weight reduction in moderately obese patients.
Why this rating
Randomized controlled trial, but small sample size (n=50), single clinic, and short duration (1 year) limit generalizability and power.
Source
Interventions for body weight reduction in obese patients during short consultations: an open-label randomized controlled trial in the Japanese primary care setting
Satoshi Kanke et al. · Asia Pacific Family Medicine · 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12930-015-0022-7
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