Satisfaction with a weight loss program: What matters?

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 238-245

  VanWormer, Jeffrey J ^a   Martinez, Anna M ^a   Cosentino, Dan ^a   Pronk, Nicolaas P ^a  

^a MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Health focus: Weight control; Outcome measure: Cognitive; Patient satisfaction, weight loss, telemonitoring, counseling, manuscript format: Quantitative research; Research purpose: Program evaluation; Setting: Workplace; Strategy: Skill building behavior change; Study design: Quasiexperimental; Target population age: Adults; Target population circumstances: Education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BODY IMAGE; COHORT STUDIES; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TELEMEDICINE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 77954636951     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.080613-QUAN-92     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Ogden CL, Johnson CL. Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2000. JAMA. 2002; 288: 1723-1727.
2. National Institutes of Health: National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults: the evidence report. Obes Res. 1998; 6(suppl 2): 51S-209S.
3. Andreyeva T, Roland S, Ringel JS. Moderate and severe obesity have large differences in health care costs. Obes Res. 2004; 12: 1936-1943.
4. Jeffery RW, Drewnowski A, Epstein LH, et al. Long-term maintenance of weight loss: current status. Health Psychol. 2000; 19(suppl 1): 5-16.
5. Jeffery RW, Kelly KM, Rothman AJ, Sherwood NE, Boutelle KN. The weight loss experience: a descriptive analysis. Ann Behav Med. 2004; 27: 100-106. (Pubitemid 38364889)
6. Tsai AG, Wadden TA. Systematic review: an evaluation of major commercial weight loss programs in the United States. Ann Intern Med. 2005; 142: 56-66.
7. Vavra TG. Improving Your Measurement of Customer Satisfaction: A Guide to Creating, Conducting, Analyzing, and Reporting Customer Satisfaction Measurement Programs. Milwaukee, Wis: ASQ Quality Press; 1997.
8. American Association of Diabetes Educators Research Committee. CQI: A Stepby-Step Guide for Quality Improvement in Diabetes Education. Chicago, III: American Association of Diabetes Educators; 2005.
9. Pratt CA. Factors related to the completion of a weight reduction program. J. Am Diet Assoc 1990; 90: 1268-1270. (Pubitemid 20283634)
10. Pratt CA, McLaughlin GW, Gaylord C. A multivariate analysis of weight-loss behavior. Psychol Rep. 1992; 71: 1075-1084.
11. Abood EA, Black DR, Coster DC. Evaluation of a school-based teen obesity prevention minimal intervention. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2008; 40: 168-174. (Pubitemid 351626915)
12. Ballantyne GH. Measuring outcomes following bariatric surgery: weight loss parameters, improvement in co-morbid conditions, change in quality of life and patient satisfaction. Obes Surg. 2003; 13: 954-964. (Pubitemid 38010725)
13. Finch EA, Linde JA, Jeffery RW, et al. The effects of outcome expectations and satisfaction on weight loss and maintenance: correlational and experimental analyse-a randomized trial. Health Psychol 2005; 24: 608-616. (Pubitemid 41698170)
14. Jeffery RW, Linde JA, Finch EA, Rothman AJ, King CM. A satisfaction enhancement intervention for long-term weight loss. Obesity. 2006; 14: 863-869. (Pubitemid 46219728)
15. Shai I, Henkin Y, Weitzman S, Levi I. Determinants of long-term satisfaction after vertical banded gastroplasty. Obes Surg. 2003; 13: 269-274. (Pubitemid 36609541)
16. Haugen HA, Tran ZV, Wyatt HR, Barry MJ, Hill JO. Using telehealth to increase participation in weight maintenance programs. Obesity. 2007; 15: 3067-3077. (Pubitemid 351256669)
17. Jones N, Furlanetto DL, Jackson JA, Kinn S. An investigation of obese adults' views of the outcomes of dietary treatment. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2007; 20: 486-494. (Pubitemid 47382306)
18. Burke LE, Steenkiste A, Music E, Styn MA. A descriptive study of past experiences with weight-loss treatment. J Am Diet Assoc. 2008; 108: 640-647. (Pubitemid 351423384)
19. VanWormer JJ, Martinez AM, Benson GA, et al. Telephone counseling and home telemonitoring: the Weigh By Day trial. Am J Health Behav. In press.
20. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Methods and measures. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/methods.htm. Accessed January 7, 2008.
21. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Questionnaire. Atlanta, Ga: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2001.
22. Kant AK, Schatzkin A, Graubard BI, Schairer C. A prospective study of diet quality and mortality in women. JAMA. 2000; 283: 2109-2115. (Pubitemid 30241306)
23. Mai V, Kant AK, Flood A, et al. Diet quality and subsequent cancer incidence and mortality in a prospective cohort of women. Int J Epidemiol. 2005; 34: 54-60. (Pubitemid 40347371)
24. Jeffery RW, McGuire MT, Brelje KL, et al. Recruitment to mail and telephone interventions for obesity in a managed care environment: the Weigh-To-Be project. Am J Manag Care. 2004; 10: 378-382. (Pubitemid 38737966)
25. Cody RP, Smith JK. Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language. New York, NY: Prentice Hall; 2005.
26. Holland BS, Copenhaver M. Improved Bonferroni-type multiple testing procedures. Psychol Bull 1988; 104: 145-149.
27. Thomas DR. A general inductive approach for analyzing qualitative evaluation data. Am J Eval. 2006; 27: 237-246.
28. Brink PJ, Ferguson K. The decision to lose weight. West J Nurs Res. 1998; 20: 84-102. (Pubitemid 128451763)
29. O'Brien K, Venn BJ, Perry T, et al. Reasons for wanting to lose weight: different strokes for different folks. Eat Behav. 2007; 8: 132-135. (Pubitemid 44890837)
30. Hankey CR, Leslie WS, Lean ME. Why lose weight? Reasons for seeking weight loss by overweight but otherwise healthy men. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2002; 26: 880-882. (Pubitemid 34620883)
31. Teixeira PJ, Going SB, Houtkooper LB, et al. Pretreatment predictors of attrition and successful weight management in women. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004; 28: 1124-1133. (Pubitemid 39141550)
32. Schoeller DA. How accurate is selfreported dietary energy intake? Nutr Rev. 1990; 48: 373-379. (Pubitemid 20351398)
33. Lichtman SW, Pisarska K, Berman ER, et al. Discrepancy between self-reported and actual caloric intake and exercise in obese subjects. N Engl J Med 1992; 327: 1893-1898. (Pubitemid 23006963)
34. Nygren I, Askmark H. Self-reported quality of life in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Palliat Med. 2006; 9: 304-308.
35. McCormick B, Yahalom J, Cox L, Shank B, Massie MJ. The patient's perception of her breast following radiation and limited surgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1989; 17: 1299-1302. (Pubitemid 20028650)
36. O'DeaJA, Abraham S. Onset of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in early adolescence: interplay of pubertal status, gender, weight, and age. Adolescence. 1999; 34: 671-679.