| A Family and Community Focused Lifestyle Program Prevents Weight Regain in Pacific Islanders: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. | |
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PMID: 21551421 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Preventing weight regain after the loss of excess weight is challenging for people, especially for ethnic minorities in the United States. A 6-month weight loss maintenance intervention designed for Pacific Islanders, called the PILI Lifestyle Program (PLP), was compared with a 6-month standard behavioral weight loss maintenance program (SBP) in a pilot randomized controlled trial using a community-based participatory research approach. Adult Pacific Islanders (N = 144) were randomly assigned to either PLP (n = 72) or SBP (n = 72) after completing a 3-month weight loss program. Successful weight maintenance was defined as participants' postintervention weight change remaining ≤3% of their preintervention mean weight. Both PLP and SBP participants achieved significant weight loss maintenance (p ≤ .05). Among participants who completed at least half of the prescribed sessions, PLP participants were 5.1-fold (95% confidence interval = 1.06, 24; p = .02) more likely to have maintained their initial weight loss than SBP participants. The pilot PLP shows promise as a lifestyle intervention to address the obesity disparities of Pacific Islanders and thus warrants further investigation. |
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Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula; Marjorie K Mau; Jimmy T Efird; Anne Leake; Margaret West; Donna-Marie Palakiko; Sheryl R Yoshimura; B Puni Kekauoha; Charles Rose; Henry Gomes |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-5-6 |
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Title: Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education Volume: - ISSN: 1552-6127 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 May |
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Created Date: 2011-5-9 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9704962 Medline TA: Health Educ Behav Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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