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Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life among African-Americans in a lifestyle weight loss program
Quality of life research, v 19(7), pp 1025-1033
2010
PMID: 20458545
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Abstract
Purpose
Changes in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) were assessed in clinically obese, African-American adults after completion of a weight loss program that resulted in modest average weight loss.
Methods
Data were analyzed for 87 men and women who provided weight measurements after an initial 10-week weight loss program (Phase 1) and a subsequent clinical trial to evaluate three weight maintenance approaches (Phase 2) over an additional 8 to 18 months. HRQoL was assessed using the Short Form SF-36 questionnaire. Intra-person changes in HRQoL were assessed and analyzed for associations with weight change within each phase. Non-parametric bivariable analyses and multivariable linear regression were used in statistical analyses.
Results
Changes in HRQoL were modest; clinically significant intra-subject improvements in SF-36 domains of general health and vitality and in the mental component summary score were observed after Phase 1 but were attenuated during Phase 2. Improvements in vitality were significantly associated with greater weight loss in Phase 1, but no HRQoL change scores during Phase 2 were associated with weight change.
Conclusions
Short-term improvements in general health and vitality were observed. The vitality domain of the SF-36 appeared to be the domain of HRQoL most responsive to modest weight change.
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Details
- Title
- Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life among African-Americans in a lifestyle weight loss program
- Creators
- Aluko A. Hope - Mount Sinai School of MedicineShiriki K. Kumanyika - University of PennsylvaniaJustine Shults - Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), University of Pennsylvania School of MedicineWilliam C. Holmes - Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Publication Details
- Quality of life research, v 19(7), pp 1025-1033
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Dana and David Dornsife School of Public Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000281111200011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79951717506
- Other Identifier
- 991019312598404721
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