Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up

Cooper, Zafra, Doll, Helen A, Hawker, Deborah M., Byrne, Susan, Bonner, Gillie, Eeley, Elizabeth, O’Connor, Marianne E. and Fairburn, Christopher G. (2010) Testing a new cognitive behavioural treatment for obesity: A randomized controlled trial with three-year follow-up. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48 (8). pp. 706-713. ISSN 1873-622X

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Abstract

It is remarkably difficult for people with obesity to maintain a new lower weight following weight loss. The aim of the present study was to examine the immediate and longer-term effects of a new cognitive behavioural treatment that was explicitly designed to minimise this post-treatment weight regain. One hundred and fifty female participants with obesity were randomized to the new treatment, behaviour therapy (the leading alternative psychological treatment) or guided self-help (a minimal intervention). Both of the main treatments resulted in an average weight loss of about ten percent of initial weight whereas weight loss was more modest with guided self-help. The participants were subsequently followed-up for three years post-treatment. The great majority regained almost all the weight that they had lost with the new treatment being no better than the behavioural treatment in preventing weight regain. These findings lend further support to the notion that obesity is resistant to psychological methods of treatment, if anything other than a short-term perspective is taken. It is suggested that it is ethically questionable to claim that psychological treatments for obesity “work” in the absence of data on their longer-term effects.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
Depositing User:	Rhiannon Harvey
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2011 10:20
Last Modified:	22 Dec 2022 17:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/32782
DOI:	10.1016/j.brat.2010.03.008

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