Steps to health employee weight management randomized control trial: short-term follow-up results

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• Personal Author:
  Brouwer RJN ; Dement, John M. ; Eisenstein EL ; Fuemmeler BF ; Gulley L ; Joyner J ; Østbye T ; Peterson BL ; Stroo M
• Description:
  Objective: To present the short-term follow-up findings of the Steps to Health study, a randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two employee weight management programs offered within Duke University and the Health System. Methods: A total of 550 obese (body mass index, .30 kg/m2) employees were randomized 1:1 between January 2011 and June 2012 to the education-based Weight Management (WM) or the WM+ arm, which focused on behavior modification. Employees were contacted to complete a follow-up visit approximately 14 months after baseline. Results: There were no clinically, or statistically, meaningful differences between arms, but there were modest reductions in body mass index, and positive, meaningful changes in diet and physical activity for both arms. Conclusions: The modest positive effects observed in this study may suggest that to achieve weight loss through the workplace more intensive interventions may be required. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Body Weight Diet Health Promotion Men Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Body-weight Health-programs Humans Nutrition Physical-fitness Weight-factors Weight-measurement Work-environment Worker-health
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  188-195
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045733
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2015 Feb; 57(2):188-195
• Contact Point Address:
  Truls Østbye, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Box 104006, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA
• Email:
  truls.ostbye@duke.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20100601
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20150531
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b97dcbe85f0e5d8275b2eb18f5c1eb514f3f0441960ddd4312eab5aed55629663754d2cd55b1bda87e2d364f00ffc47581f1553e16d4596a0781582a202cf949
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201035/cdc_201035_DS1.pdf
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