The failure of therapist assistance and stepped-care to improve weight loss outcomes

Obesity

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1460-1462

  Carels, Robert A ^a   Young, Kathleen M ^a   Coit, Carissa B ^a   Darby, Lynn A ^a   Clayton, Anna M ^a   Spencer, Alexis C ^a   Hobbs, Marissa W ^a   Oemig, Carmen K ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 44449141483     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2008.49     Document Type: Article

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