Adherence
A home-based, individually tailored lifestyle intervention combining limited face-to-face counseling with telephone, print, and DVD media promotes clinically significant weight loss (≥5%) and increased moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in obese, sedentary primary care patients, with effects peaking at 12 months.
If you are obese and sedentary, a structured home-based program with regular check-ins (phone/mail) and clear goals can help you lose significant weight and get more active. Expect the best results within the first year, but plan for ongoing support to keep the weight off long-term. You don't need constant doctor visits, but you do need consistent engagement with the program materials.
A home-based tailored lifestyle intervention in obese, sedentary primary care patients was effective in promoting weight loss and increasing moderate to vigorous physical activity, with the effects peaking at 12 months but waning at 24 months.
Why this rating
Randomized controlled trial with a large sample size (n=211) and long duration (24 months), though retention dropped in the second year.
Source
A Randomized Clinical Trial of a Tailored Lifestyle Intervention for Obese, Sedentary, Primary Care Patients
Charles B. Eaton et al. · The Annals of Family Medicine · 2016
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