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- The study aimed to analyze 17 treatment approaches used in the EARLY weight management trials to better understand their components and effectiveness.
- Researchers categorized intervention materials based on behavioral domains and techniques, discovering that each treatment arm typically contained around 29 different behavior change techniques (BCTs).
- The findings suggest that the complexity of these interventions relies on shared BCTs across six key domains, indicating these may form a foundational approach for further research on improving weight management effectiveness.
Article Abstract
Objective: The goal of the present study was to deconstruct the 17 treatment arms used in the Early Adult Reduction of weight through LifestYle (EARLY) weight management trials.
Methods: Intervention materials were coded to reflect behavioral domains and behavior change techniques (BCTs) within those domains planned for each treatment arm. The analytical hierarchy process was employed to determine an emphasis profile of domains in each intervention.
Results: The intervention arms used BCTs from all of the 16 domains, with an average of 29.3 BCTs per intervention arm. All 12 of the interventions included BCTs from the six domains of Goals and Planning, Feedback and Monitoring, Social Support, Shaping Knowledge, Natural Consequences, and Comparison of Outcomes; 11 of the 12 interventions shared 15 BCTs in common across those six domains.
Conclusions: Weight management interventions are complex. The shared set of BCTs used in the EARLY trials may represent a core intervention that could be studied to determine the required emphases of BCTs and whether additional BCTs add to or detract from efficacy. Deconstructing interventions will aid in reproducibility and understanding of active ingredients.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6749832 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oby.22506 | DOI Listing |
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