Use of programmed instruction in teaching self-management skills to overweight adults

Hanson, Richard W.; Borden, Betty L.; Hall, Sharon M.; Hall, Robert G.

doi:10.1016/s0005-7894(76)80065-2

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“…Average weight losses ranged from 5.4 to 6.8 kg over the 10 weeks of treatment. Although this study investigated only mildly overweight college students and had a short follow‐up period of 4 weeks, a subsequent replication corrected for these shortcomings (31). Two treatment‐manual conditions (one with high and one with low therapist contact) and a group‐therapy condition all resulted in greater weight losses than control groups.…”

Section: Effectiveness Of Self‐helpmentioning

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Self‐help in the long‐term treatment of obesity

Latner

2001

Obesity Reviews

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Despite the short-term success of professional behavioural techniques for obesity, weight losses are typically regained following treatment. The long-term maintenance of treatment effects will probably require ongoing, continuing care. Continuing care may be economically feasible when administered through self-help treatment modalities. Self-help confers a number of psychological benefits, such as self-reliance and an increased sense of empowerment. The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of various modalities of self-help are reviewed, including purely self-prompted help, self-administered manuals, computer-assisted therapy, professionally assisted correspondence courses, and non-profit and commercial self-help groups. Stepped-care models suggest using a combination of these approaches when appropriate. However, logistical difficulties present themselves in stepped-care approaches with obesity, such as the complicating effects of severity and comorbidity on stepped-care status. Self-help groups are a promising venue for the provision of continuing care and as an adjunct to more intensive, specialty therapies.

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Section: Effectiveness Of Self‐helpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐help in the long‐term treatment of obesity

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2001

Obesity Reviews

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“…Since the implementation of most behavioral techniques requires continuing effort, it is possible that, without help from a therapist, the participants' motivation waned and they decreased their use of the tech-niques. Several studies (Jeffery et al, 1978;Levitz & Stunkard, 1974), have demonstrated that therapist experience was positively related to weight loss. Perhaps the superiority of Standard Behavioral Treatments is the result of the skill of the therapist in maintaining the participants' motivation to carry out the techniques presented in treatment.…”

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“…The Standard Behavioral Treatment was superior to the other three treatments on one of the outcome measures. The role of the therapist in maintaining participants' motivation to implement the behavioral techniques presented in treatment is discussed.Several investigators (Bellack, Schwartz, & Rozensky, 1974;Hagen, 1974;Hanson, Borden, Hall, & Hall, 1976) have reported that behavioral treatment presented via a written manual (bibliotherapy) is as effective as a behavioral weight control program conducted by a therapist. Carter, Rice, and DeJulio (1977) reported that therapist contact decreased the effectiveness of behavioral treatment.…”

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Dismantling the behavioral treatment of obesity

Abramson

1985

Int. J. Eat. Disord.

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A dismantling strategy was used to assess the effects of therapist participation and group contact in the behavioral treatment of obesity. A Standard Behavioral Treatment including group contact and therapist leadership was compared with a Taped Behavioral Treatment conducted in groups via audiotape without a therapist, a Bibliotherapy treatment lacking both group contact and a therapist, and a nonbehavioral Insight group conducted by a therapist. All treatments resulted in statistically significant weight loss. The Standard Behavioral Treatment was superior to the other three treatments on one of the outcome measures. The role of the therapist in maintaining participants' motivation to implement the behavioral techniques presented in treatment is discussed.

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“…He also found that many studies suffered from a serious deficiency: a chronic lack of control groups through which effects could be studied between comparable groups exposed and unexposed to direct mailings. Several studies also have examined the effectiveness of direct mail as a tool in nutrition education (18,7, 17, 27, 31), and in obesity treatment and prevention (19,5,35,24). In general, many of these studies have involved more carefully controlled designs showing changes in knowledge among certain demographic or risk bctor-defined subgroups, as well as certain kinds of behavior change, such as weight loss.…”

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Using direct mail to bridge “knowledge gaps” in communication about health

Finnegan¹,

Loken²,

Howard-Pitney³

1987

Journal of Direct Marketing

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A field experiment with a pretest and post‐test control group design was used to measure the effects of direct mail messages on awareness and knowledge of health and heart health information. The study was conducted as part of a larger community‐wide heart disease risk factor reduction project. The major focus of the research was to analyze the relative effectiveness of direct mail in bridging certain “knowledge gaps” in health information among demographic subgroups. Generally, direct mail was found to be effective in getting people to read about heart health‐specific information in a direct mail letter addressed to them. It also appeared to be effective in narrowing demographic “knowledge gaps” in health information occurring between men and women and between lower‐ and higher‐educated subgroups.

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Use of programmed instruction in teaching self-management skills to overweight adults

Cited by 58 publications

References 11 publications

Self‐help in the long‐term treatment of obesity

Self‐help in the long‐term treatment of obesity

Dismantling the behavioral treatment of obesity

Using direct mail to bridge “knowledge gaps” in communication about health

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