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H Hospers

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PubMed2001

One-year follow-up effects of two obesity treatments on psychological well-being and weight.

OBJECTIVES: The effectiveness of a cognitive and a behavioural treatment for obese binge eaters and obese non-binge eaters was evaluated at 1-year follow-up. Furthermore, we examined the role of weight changes on psychological well-being at 1-year follow-up. DESIGN AND METHOD: Participants were reassessed 6 months and 1 year after they had finished a group cognitive treatment or a group behavioural treatment. The outcome measures were; psychological well-being (concerns about shape, weight and eating, self-esteem and depression), binge eating, and weight. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Analyses on the completers' sample revealed that both treatments had a markedly positive and lasting impact on shape concern, weight concern and eating concern, binge eating, self-esteem, and depression at 1-year follow-up. Cognitive treatment was not superior to behavioural treatment on most outcome measures. This might be due to selective drop-out. Analyses including non-responders showed that the cognitive treatment was superior on shape, weight and eating concern, and binge eating. The 1-year follow-up results for weight-loss were disappointing. Between pre-treatment and 1-year follow-up participants in the behaviour treatment lost 3.0 kg, while participants in the cognitive treatment lost 0.3 kg. However, participants who gained weight were as successful on changes in psychological well-being changes as participants who lost weight.

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PubMed1994

Physicians' recommendations for mammography: do tailored messages make a difference?

OBJECTIVES: Message tailoring, based on individual needs and circumstances, is commonly used to enhance face-to-face patient counseling. Only recently has individual tailoring become feasible for printed messages. This study sought to determine whether printed tailored recommendations addressing women's specific screening and risk status and perceptions about breast cancer and mammography are more effective than standardized printed recommendations. METHODS: Computer-assisted telephone interviews were conducted with 435 women, aged 40 to 65 years, who had visited family practice groups within the previous 2 years. Subjects were randomly allocated to receive individually tailored or standardized mammography recommendation letters mailed from physicians to patients' homes. Follow-up interviews were conducted 8 months later. RESULTS: Tailored letter recipients were more likely to remember and to have read more of their letters than standardized version recipients. After controlling for baseline status, tailored letter receipt was associated with more favorable follow-up mammography status for women with incomes below $26,000 and for Black women. CONCLUSIONS: Tailored messages are a more effective medium for physicians' mammography recommendations; tailoring may be especially important for women of low socioeconomic status.

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