Interventions for Sustainable Weight Loss in Military Families

Abstract

We started study recruitment in January 2015 and enrolled 11 participants between April 29-30th 2015. Despite overwhelming interest and need for weight loss programs as suggested by surveys and focus groups, recruitment for a 2 year program has been challenging in the Hanscom Air Force Base study location. This may be due to multiple constraints that are both unique to military families and particular to this base which is not typical of the larger, more traditional bases where a large active duty military dependent population exists. We have carefully monitored this challenge and have deployed our alternative plans that anticipated this problem. This includes expanding our recruitment pool to include more bases and opening up the online group counseling option. We hope to be well on our way with recruitment and participant enrollment with this plan in place.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA617056

Entities

People

  • Susan B. Roberts

Organizations

  • Tufts University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Best Practices
  • Biomedical Research
  • Body Weight
  • Electronic Mail
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Health Care
  • Intervention
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Facilities
  • Military Families
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Organizational Structure

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