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Correlates Of Adherence To An Adolescent Weight Management Program: A Secondary Data Analysis, Meredith Walker Hanson
Correlates Of Adherence To An Adolescent Weight Management Program: A Secondary Data Analysis, Meredith Walker Hanson
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between HRQOL and
adherence to an adolescent weight management program and identify variables predictive of increased adherence which are critical to motivating engagement in weight
management. This study was a non-experimental, retrospective secondary analysis from
aggregate data collected as part of the REWARD Teens program, a weight management
program for overweight and obese adolescents. Data from 37 subjects were included in
this study. Subject adherence to the program was the primary outcome variable. There
was no significant relationship between baseline adolescent or parent-proxy sub-scale or total HRQOL scores with program …