Adherence
A low-intensity, brief behavioral intervention (AIM-HI) focusing on small changes in physical activity, healthy eating, and emotional well-being leads to significant improvements in body weight, fitness, and dietary habits in motivated primary care patients over 10 months.
If you are overweight and motivated, you don't need a high-intensity program to see results. Work with your doctor to pick one small, manageable change to your diet or activity level. Review your progress every few months. This approach can help nearly 1 in 5 people lose significant weight or improve fitness over 10 months.
Both patient groups were able to show significant before-after improvements in selected patient-level outcomes... 16.2% of patients who completed a 10-month visit... lost 5% or more of their body weight; 16.7%... had a 2-point or greater increase in their fitness level
Why this rating
Randomized trial with 610 patients, but high dropout rates and lack of a true control group (both groups received intervention) limit causal inference regarding the specific intervention efficacy vs. natural history.
Source
Effectiveness of 2 Methods of Promoting Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and Emotional Well-Being With the Americans in Motion--Healthy Interventions Approach
Wilson D. Pace et al. · The Annals of Family Medicine · 2013
DOI 10.1370/afm.1516
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