Who is counseled to lose weight? Survey results and anthropometric data from 3,149 lower socioeconomic women

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 202-207

  Breitkopf, Carmen Radecki ^a   Egginton, Jason S ^a   Naessens, James M ^a   Montori, Victor M ^a   Jatoi, Aminah ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Counseling; Disadvantaged; Obesity; Overweight; Weight loss advice; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857056030     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-011-9437-8     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Ogden, C. K., Yanovski, S. Z., Carroll, M. D., & Flegal, K. M. (2007). The epidemiology of obesity. Gastroenterology, 132, 2087-2102. (Pubitemid 46693751)
2. Flegal, K. M., Carroll, M. D., Ogden, C. L., & Curtin, L. R. (2010). Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008. JAMA, 303, 235-241.
3. Berrington de Gonzalez, A., Hartge, P., Cerhan, J. R., et al. (2010). Body mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults. The New England Journal of Medicine, 363, 221-229.
4. Ko, J. Y., Brown, D. R., Galuska, D. A., et al. (2008). Weight loss advice US obese patients receive from health care professionals. Preventive Medicine, 47, 587-592.
5. Galuska, D. A., Will, J. C., Serdula, M. K., & Ford, E. S. (1999). Are healthcare professionals advising obese patients to lose weight? JAMA, 282, 1576-1578. (Pubitemid 29504051)
6. Stafford, R. S., Farhat, J. H., Misra, B., & Schoenfeld, D. A. (2000). National patterns of physician activities related to obesity management. Archives of Family Medicine, 9, 631-638.
7. Sciamanna, C. N., Tate, D. F., Lang, W., & Wing, R. R. (2000). Who reports receiving advice to lose weight? Results from a multistate survey. Archives of Internal Medicine, 160, 2334-2339.
8. Singh, S., & Lopez-Jimenez, F. (2010). Medically diagnosed overweight and weight loss in a US national survey. Preventive Medicine, 51, 24-26.
9. Mokdad, A., Bowman, B., Ford, E., et al. (2001). The continuing epidemic of obesity and diabetes in the United States. JAMA, 286, 1195-1200. (Pubitemid 33015548)
10. Wells, N. M., Evans, G. W., Beavis, A., & Ong, A. D. (2010). Early childhood poverty, cumulative risk exposure, and body mass index trajectories through young adulthood. American Journal of Public Health, 100, 2507-2512.
11. Sobal, J., & Stunkard, A. J. (1989). Socioeconomic status and obesity: A review of the literature. Psychological Bulletin, 105, 260-275.
12. Hays, R. D., Hayashi, T., & Stewart, A. L. (1989). A five-item measure of socially desirable response set. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 49, 629-636.
13. Fleiss, J. L., Levin, B., & Paik, M. C. (2003). Statistical methods for rates and proportions (3rd ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
14. World Health Organization. (1997). Obesity: Preventing and managing the global epidemic: Report of a WHO consultation on obesity. World Health Organization, Geneva (WHO/NUT/NCD/98.1).
15. Linde, J. A., Jeffery, R. W., French, S. A., et al. (2005). Selfweighing in weight gain prevention and weight loss trials. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 30, 210-216. (Pubitemid 41832014)
16. Wing, R. R., Tate, D. F., Gorin, A. A., Raynor, H. A., & Fava, J. L. (2006). A self-regulation program for maintenance of weight loss. The New England Journal of Medicine, 355, 1563-1571. (Pubitemid 44547807)
17. Hill, J. O. (2009). Can a small changes approach help address the obesity epidemic? A report of the Joint Task Force of the American Society of Nutrition, Institute of Food Technologists and International Food Information Council. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89, 477-484.