- Title
- Workday sitting time and marital status: novel pretreatment predictors of weight loss in overweight and obese men
- Creator
- Morgan, Philip J.; Hollis, Jenna L.; Young, Myles D.; Collins, Clare E.; Teixeira, Pedro J.
- Relation
- American Journal of Men’s Health Vol. 12, Issue 5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988316654866
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The evidence base for weight loss programs in men is limited. Gaining a greater understanding of which personal characteristics and pretreatment behaviors predict weight loss and attrition in male-only studies would be useful to inform the development of future interventions for men. In December 2010, 159 overweight/obese men (mean age = 47.5 years; body mass index = 32.7 kg/m2) from the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, participated in a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of two versions of a 3-month gender-targeted weight loss program. In the current analyses, social–cognitive, behavioral, and demographic pretreatment characteristics were examined to determine if they predicted weight loss and attrition in the participants over 6 months. Generalized linear mixed models (intention-to-treat) revealed weight change was associated with education level (p = .02), marital status (p = .03), fat mass (p = .045), sitting time on nonwork (p = .046), and workdays (p = .03). Workday sitting time and marital status accounted for 6.5% (p = .01) of the variance in the final model. Attrition was associated with level of education (p = .01) and body fat percentage (p = .01), accounting for 9.5% (p = .002) of the variance in the final model. This study suggests men who spend a lot of time sitting at work, especially those who are not married, may require additional support to experience success in self-administered weight loss programs targeting males. Additional high-quality evidence is needed to improve the understanding which pretreatment behaviors and characteristics predict weight loss and attrition in men.
- Subject
- obesity; predictor; weight loss; male; attrition
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326323
- Identifier
- uon:25400
- Identifier
- ISSN:1557-9883
- Language
- eng
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