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Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up
It is remarkably difficult for people with obesity to maintain a new lower weight following weight loss. The aim of the present study was to examine the immediate and longer-term effects of a new cognitive behavioural treatment that was explicitly designed to minimise this post-treatment weight rega...
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2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20691328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2010.03.008 |
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author | Cooper, Zafra Doll, Helen A. Hawker, Deborah M. Byrne, Susan Bonner, Gillie Eeley, Elizabeth O’Connor, Marianne E. Fairburn, Christopher G. |
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description | It is remarkably difficult for people with obesity to maintain a new lower weight following weight loss. The aim of the present study was to examine the immediate and longer-term effects of a new cognitive behavioural treatment that was explicitly designed to minimise this post-treatment weight regain. One hundred and fifty female participants with obesity were randomized to the new treatment, behaviour therapy (the leading alternative psychological treatment) or guided self-help (a minimal intervention). Both of the main treatments resulted in an average weight loss of about ten percent of initial weight whereas weight loss was more modest with guided self-help. The participants were subsequently followed-up for three years post-treatment. The great majority regained almost all the weight that they had lost with the new treatment being no better than the behavioural treatment in preventing weight regain. These findings lend further support to the notion that obesity is resistant to psychological methods of treatment, if anything other than a short-term perspective is taken. It is suggested that it is ethically questionable to claim that psychological treatments for obesity “work” in the absence of data on their longer-term effects. |
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spelling | pubmed-29237432010-09-08 Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up Cooper, Zafra Doll, Helen A. Hawker, Deborah M. Byrne, Susan Bonner, Gillie Eeley, Elizabeth O’Connor, Marianne E. Fairburn, Christopher G. Behav Res Ther Article It is remarkably difficult for people with obesity to maintain a new lower weight following weight loss. The aim of the present study was to examine the immediate and longer-term effects of a new cognitive behavioural treatment that was explicitly designed to minimise this post-treatment weight regain. One hundred and fifty female participants with obesity were randomized to the new treatment, behaviour therapy (the leading alternative psychological treatment) or guided self-help (a minimal intervention). Both of the main treatments resulted in an average weight loss of about ten percent of initial weight whereas weight loss was more modest with guided self-help. The participants were subsequently followed-up for three years post-treatment. The great majority regained almost all the weight that they had lost with the new treatment being no better than the behavioural treatment in preventing weight regain. These findings lend further support to the notion that obesity is resistant to psychological methods of treatment, if anything other than a short-term perspective is taken. It is suggested that it is ethically questionable to claim that psychological treatments for obesity “work” in the absence of data on their longer-term effects. Elsevier Science 2010-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2923743/ /pubmed/20691328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2010.03.008 Text en © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Open Access under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) license |
spellingShingle | Article Cooper, Zafra Doll, Helen A. Hawker, Deborah M. Byrne, Susan Bonner, Gillie Eeley, Elizabeth O’Connor, Marianne E. Fairburn, Christopher G. Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
title | Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
title_full | Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
title_fullStr | Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
title_full_unstemmed | Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
title_short | Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
title_sort | testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: a randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2923743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20691328 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2010.03.008 |
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