Development and validation of the weight control strategies scale

179 Background: Obesity remains an underestimated contributor to global cancer incidence and cancer-related mortality. Accumulating evidence suggests excessive energy intake and suboptimal levels of physical activity may be important after the diagnosis of cancer and may influence recurrence and overall survival(OS). Objective: Conduct a systematic review to evaluate data from randomized trials of weight control strategies used in breast cancer patients. Methods: A systematic search of Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Register of Controlled Trials through April 2015 was performed. Randomized trials of weight management strategies in breast cancer patients were sought. Outcomes studied included; change in weight, BMI and waist circumference, disease-free survival, recurrence-free survival and OS survival. Random effects meta-analyses were planned provided that included studies were considered to be clinically and methodologically homogenous. Results: Of 2876 abstracts, 312 were retained for review of the full texts. Overall 43 publications describing 40 studies met inclusion criteria. Of 12,801 enrolled patients, 11,597 had breast cancer. Fifteen studies consisted of dietary interventions, 17 consisted of exercise interventions and 8 consisted of both dietary and exercise interventions. Endpoints included: changes in weight (32 studies, 7,861 pts), BMI (12 studies, 1,886 pts), waist circumference (10 studies, 702 pts), recurrence-free survival (4 studies, 6105 pts) and overall survival (2 studies, 3,330 pts). Network meta-analyses of available data are in progress. Study results suggest that weight control strategies including dietary and exercise interventions were effective at reducing weight, BMI and waist circumference. Two large studies showed statistically significant recurrence-free survival benefits with weight control strategies and one showed OS benefit with an exercise intervention. Conclusions: Data from included trials suggest benefits of weight control strategies to decrease weight, BMI and waist circumference. Few trials have been designed to detect PFS or OS benefits. Larger trials are warranted to better define the role of weight control strategies in the management of breast cancer patients.

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Weight Control Strategies Scale

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t31112-000 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Angela Marinilli Pinto ◽

Joseph L. Fava ◽

Hollie A. Raynor ◽

Jessica Gokee LaRose ◽

Rena R. Wing

Keyword(s):

Weight Control ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Weight Control Strategies

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Teaching children with diabetes about adequate dietary choices

British Journal Of Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s0007114508892495 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 99 (S1) ◽

pp. S33-S39 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Claudio Maffeis ◽

Leonardo Pinelli

Keyword(s):

Diabetes Care ◽

Weight Control ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Nutritional Intervention ◽

Early Years ◽

Animal Origin ◽

Nutritional Education ◽

Dietary Choices ◽

Meal Plan ◽

Weight Control Strategies

Recent recommendations by the American Diabetes Association suggest that children with type 1 diabetes should follow the recommendations for age, sex and body size of the general population. In the case of being overweight or obese, weight-control strategies should be applied. Adherence to recommendations should be pursued by continuous nutritional education that should start at the onset of diabetes and maintained by means of nutritional counselling to the family. The second main target of nutritional intervention is to encourage a reproducible daily meal plan that can be maintained by acquiring good habits when making nutritional choices. Finally, children and parents should be taught how to count carbohydrates, which would help them manage exceptions in their daily meal plan. Specifically, nutritional recommendations for children with diabetes focus on limiting the intake of foods of animal origin (red meat, cheese, cold cuts), moderating fat intake and promoting the intake of foods that naturally contain fibre (mainly vegetables, legumes, fruit). There are two at-risk periods in the lives of children when nutritional education procedures as well as diabetes care in general are less likely to be effective: early years of life and adolescence. In the case of very young children, new behavioural-based intervention strategies to help parents improve mealtimes could be useful in teaching diabetic children to learn to follow a structured eating schedule, which is desirable for long-lasting efficacy in diabetes care. In adolescents, eating disorders and insulin misuse for weight control purposes are concrete and difficult problems to deal with. A good balance between eating for pleasure and maintaining one's health is a challenge for anyone. Appropriate nutritional education helps children with diabetes to find this balance and enjoy a better quality of life.

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Socio-economic differences in weight-control behaviours and barriers to weight control

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980011000644 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 14 (10) ◽

pp. 1768-1778 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Jessica Siu ◽

Katrina Giskes ◽

Gavin Turrell

Keyword(s):

Weight Control ◽

Weight Status ◽

Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Postal Questionnaire ◽

Sitting Time ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Weight Control Strategies ◽

Economic Inequalities

AbstractObjectiveTo examine socio-economic differences in weight-control behaviours (WCB) and barriers to weight control.DesignA cross-sectional study.SettingData were obtained by means of a postal questionnaire.SubjectsA total of 1013 men and women aged 45–60 years residing in Brisbane, Australia (69·8 % response rate).ResultsBinary and multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed, adjusted for age, gender and BMI. Socio-economically disadvantaged groups were less likely to engage in weight control (OR for lowest income quartile = 0·60, 95 % CI 0·39, 0·94); among those who engaged in weight control, the disadvantaged group had a likelihood of 0·52 (95 % CI 0·30, 0·90) of adopting exercise strategies, including moderate (OR = 0·56, 95 % CI 0·33, 0·96) and vigorous (OR = 0·47, 95 % CI 0·25, 0·89) physical activities, compared with their more-advantaged counterparts. However, lower socio-economic groups were more likely to decrease their sitting time to control their weight compared with their advantaged counterparts (OR for secondary school or lower education = 1·78, 95 % CI 1·11, 2·84). They were also more likely to believe that losing weight was expensive, not of high priority, required a lot of cooking skills and involved eating differently from others in the household.ConclusionsMarked socio-economic inequalities existed with regard to engaging in WCB, the type of weight-control strategies used and the perceived barriers to weight control; these differences are consistent with socio-economic gradients in weight status. These factors may need to be included in health promotion strategies that address socio-economic inequalities in weight status, as well as inequalities in weight-related health outcomes.

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Weight Control Strategies of Olympic Athletes Striving for Leanness: What Can be Done to Make Sport a Safer Environment?

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine ◽

10.1097/jsm.0b013e3181635664 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 2-4 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Margo Mountjoy

Keyword(s):

Weight Control ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Olympic Athletes ◽

Weight Control Strategies

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