Permanence of two self-managed treatments of overweight in university and community populations.

Assigned 94 males and females from community and university samples (mean ages = 20.8 and 42 yrs, respectively) to 2 self-management treatments, nonspecific, or no-treatment controls. At post-treatment, self-management conditions differed from controls in percentage of overweight lost. At 3-mo follow-up, the simpler self-management procedure differed from the nonspecific control on both dependent variables. The more complex self-management treatment differed only on percentage of body weight lost. At 6-mo follow-up, differences were not significant. Treatments * Time of Assessment analysis on body weight indicated a significant interaction and significant losses during treatment and gains during posttreatment for both self-management conditions. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)