Using synchronous distance-education technology to deliver a weight management intervention.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of online delivery of a weight management program using synchronous (real-time), distance-education technology to in-person delivery.

Methods: Synchronous, distance-education technology was used to conduct weekly sessions for participants with a live instructor. Program effectiveness was indicated by changes in weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, and confidence in ability to eat healthy and be physically active.

Delivering a behavior-change weight management program to teachers and state employees in North Carolina.

Purpose: To ascertain the effectiveness of a behavior-change weight management program offered to teachers and state employees in North Carolina (NC).

Design: Fifteen-week weight management program with premeasures and postmeasures.

Setting: State agencies and public K-12 schools in five NC counties.

Participation in community-originated interventions is associated with positive changes in weight status and health behaviors in youth.

Purpose: To assess changes in children's health behaviors and weight status after participation in community-originated interventions.

Design: Prospective cohort study following body mass index (BMI) z-score trajectory over time.

Setting: Schools and community settings in 19 locations in North Carolina.

Effects of a behavior-based weight management program delivered through a state cooperative extension and local public health department network, North Carolina, 2008-2009.

Introduction: Eat Smart, Move More, Weigh Less (ESMMWL) is an adult weight management program developed in response to North Carolina Obesity Plan recommendations to make weight management interventions accessible to underserved populations. ESMMWL was designed to be delivered through the North Carolina Cooperative Extension and North Carolina Division of Public Health. Program coursework included content on evidence-based eating and physical activity behaviors and incorporated mindful eating concepts.