Communicating personalized risk of diabetes and offering weight reduction program choice: Recruitment, participation, and outcomes.

Objective: Low patient recruitment into diabetes prevention programs is a challenge. The primary aim of this study was to demonstrate that an increased recruitment rate can be achieved by communicating personalized risk of progression to type 2 diabetes, estimating risk reduction with weight loss, and offering program choice. Secondary aims included program participation rate, weight loss, and short-term decreased diabetes risk.

The feasibility of a behavioral group intervention after weight-loss surgery: A randomized pilot trial.

Background: Formal psychosocial support programs after weight-loss surgery are limited in scope and availability.

Objective: This randomized pilot study evaluated the feasibility of a postoperative behavioral intervention program.

Materials And Methods: Postoperative weight-loss surgery patients (N = 50) were recruited from February 2017-July 2017 and randomized to a four-month behavioral program or usual care wait-list.

The APA Style Converter: a Web-based interface for converting articles to APA style for publication.

The APA Style Converter is a Web-based tool with which authors may prepare their articles in APA style according to the APA Publication Manual (5th ed.). The Converter provides a user-friendly interface that allows authors to copy and paste text and upload figures through the Web, and it automatically converts all texts, references, and figures to a structured article in APA style.