Theory-based psychosocial factors that discriminate between weight-loss success and failure over 6 months in women with morbid obesity receiving behavioral treatments

Abstract

New and relevant findings regarding treatment-induced psychosocial changes might be useful in the architecture of more successful behavioral weight-loss interventions.

Effects of a Standardized Curriculum on Physical Activity and Body Composition in After-School Program Participants with BMI Scores above the 90th Percentile: Assessing Theory-based Predictors

“…Substantial inter-correlations among changes in the psychosocial variables could, however, have affected the regression results. The importance of self-regulation change identified here was similarly supported by both theory (Bandura, 2005) and corresponding research with adults (Annesi & Johnson, 2015;Annesi, 2017;Teixeira et al, 2015). However, even given the high importance of a self-regulatory skill focus indicated, some attention to increasing participants' self-efficacy to overcome barriers to physical activity and improving mood should remain, largely because of the considerable volume of research supporting their associations with physical activity in children (Janssen & LeBlanc, 2010;Sallis, Prochaska, & Taylor, 2000).…”

“…It was the aim of this research to evaluate effects on enrollees who were above the 90th percentile for BMI by assessing how the treatment influenced the theory-based factors of self-regulatory skills usage, self-efficacy, and mood when contrasted with a control condition of usual care. These three factors were selected because they were consistent with the theories that formed the basis of the treatment, and had been identified as the most salient predictors of physical activity change in research with adults (Annesi & Johnson, 2015). It was thought that improved self-regulatory skills usage would help manage environmental challenges to behavioral changes; increased self-efficacy would emerge from self-regulatory skillsupported successes in dealing with barriers and thus facilitate increased effort and persistence; and improved exercise-induced mood would enable an overall positive climate that would increase self-regulatory effects (Baker & Brownell, 2000).…”

“…Thus, to increase understandings of how treatment-associated changes in psychological variables impact out-of-school physical activity, various explanatory models previously evaluated in adults (Annesi, 2017;Annesi & Johnson, 2015;Teixeira et al, 2015) were tested with elementary school-age children within this research. Specifically, statistical models were fit where (a) changes in selfregulation, self-efficacy, and mood simultaneously predicting outof-school change in physical activity, (b) change in self-efficacy mediating the prediction of change in physical activity by selfregulation change, and (c) mood moderating the association of changes in physical activity and self-regulation could be contrasted.…”

Epigenetics And Nutrition

“…Furthermore, it is important to address the psychosocial factors related to nutrition and their impact on health and disease prevention. In case of weight loss success, women with morbid obesity were subjected to cognitivebehavioral methods including education of exercise and healthy eating practices [94]. The study results suggested that the treatment-induced psychosocial changes might be advantageous for more successful behavioral weight-loss management.…”

Epigenetics And Nutrition

“…In case of weight loss success, women with morbid obesity were subjected to cognitivebehavioral methods including education of exercise and healthy eating practices [94]. The study results…”