Weight Loss Maintenance: Exploring Racial Differences

减肥维持：探索种族差异

• 批准号: 7322503
• 负责人: MELANIE T WARZISKI TURK
• 金额: $ 3.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-28 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7322503
• 关键词: Adherence; Adopted; Affect; African American; Alaska Native; American Indians; Ancillary Study; Asians; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Body Weight Changes; Body Weight decreased; Body mass index; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Chronic; Clinic; Diet; Dietary intake; Eating; Educational Status; Exercise; Fat-Restricted Diet; Fatty acid glycerol esters; Food; Future; Gender; Habits; Health; Health Care Costs; High Risk Woman; Hispanics; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Investigation; Linear Regressions; Lipids; Literature; Maintenance; Mediator of activation protein; Mexican Americans; Minority; Morbidity - disease rate; Obesity; Parents; Participant; Persons; Physical activity; Population; Prevalence; Purpose; Race; Randomized; Rate; Relative (related person); Research; Role; Self Efficacy; Social support; Standards of Weights and Measures; Stress; Testing; United States; Vegetarian diet; Weight; Woman; age group; base; demographics; design; diet and exercise; ethnic minority population; experience; improved; obesity risk; preference; racial difference; recidivism; social cognitive theory; statistics; treatment planning; weight loss intervention; weight maintenance

The general puposes of the proposed study are to utilize social cognitive theory to: 1) investigate weight loss maintenance among minority and non-minority persons after completion of the parent behavioral weight loss intervention study and 2) identify the possible differences between minorities and non-minorities in adherence to weight loss strategies for weight maintenance. The primary aims are:1) to examine differences between groups in the percentage of weight loss maintained following completion of the parent study, 2) to explore the differences in behavioral strategies used to maintain weight loss, and 3) to assess the specific predictors of successful weight maintenance. Secondary aims are to describe the roles of social support and stress in weight maintenance for minority and non-minority persons. Descriptive statistics will examine behavioral strategies;paired t-tests will compare mean weight change between groups, and multiple linear regression will analyze predictors of weight maintenance (or not) to meet the aims of the proposed study. Results will be used to develop future, culturally sensitive studies for minority populations assisting in weight maintenance in order to decrease co-morbidities associated with obesity and resultant healthcare costs.

本研究的一般目的是利用社会认知理论：1)研究减肥