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A Qualitative Analysis Of Barriers To And Facilitators Of Successful Weight Loss, Alyson Drooger
A Qualitative Analysis Of Barriers To And Facilitators Of Successful Weight Loss, Alyson Drooger
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Background: Along with the United States obesity epidemic comes extensive weight loss attempts. One way people are attempting to lose weight is through meal replacement programs. Much work has been done to study strategies of structured weight loss programs and examine their success. Limited work has been done to study the specific barriers and facilitators of the real life participants who join weight loss programs. The purpose of this study is to identify, through qualitative research methods, the barriers to and facilitators of weight loss while participating in a meal replacement program.
Methods: Twenty-nine members of a meal replacement program …