Adherence
The Football Fans in Training (FFIT) weight management programme, delivered through professional football clubs, produces significant long-term weight loss (mean 2.90 kg) and sustained improvements in physical activity, diet, and psychological well-being in men aged 35-65, with effects persisting up to 3.5 years post-intervention.
If you are a man interested in football, joining a structured weight loss program delivered through a local football club can help you lose weight and keep it off. The FFIT program uses your team loyalty to motivate you to make small, sustainable changes to your physical activity and diet, leading to significant long-term health benefits.
Participants in the FFIT follow-up intervention group sustained a mean weight loss from baseline of 2.90 kg [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.78 to 4.02 kg; p < 0.001], and 32.2% (75/233) weighed ≥ 5% less than at baseline.
Why this rating
Randomized Controlled Trial with long-term follow-up and objective measures, though specific adherence mechanisms are self-reported.
Source
Long-term weight loss following a randomised controlled trial of a weight management programme for men delivered through professional football clubs: the Football Fans in Training follow-up study
Cindy M. Gray et al. · Public Health Research · 2018
DOI 10.3310/phr06090
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