The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health featured a recent study by UNC Lineberger’s Deborah Tate, PhD, and UNC Gillings colleagues that investigated behavioral strategies used in weight‐related interventions.
The UNC study focused on the 17 treatment arms used in the Early Adult Reduction of weight through LifestYle (EARLY) weight management trials.
They reported in the journal Obesity that the shared set of behavior change techniques (BCTs) used in the 17 treatment arms used in the Early Adult Reduction of weight through LifestYle (EARLY) weight management trials. The EARLY trials may represent a core intervention that could be studied to determine the required emphases of BCTs and whether additional BCTs add to or detract from efficacy.
More research is needed, the researchers wrote, to determine whether a smaller set of techniques could be as, or more, effective and more easily disseminated.