Predictors of racial differences in weight loss: the PROPEL trial
An erratum to this article was published (Obesity (Silver Spring), Jun 2024 ↗)
Authors' conclusion
Strategies specifically targeting engagement, such as improving session attendance and self-weighing behaviors, among African American individuals are needed to support more equitable weight losses over extended time periods.
Study context
- Population
- Patients in the intervention arm of the PROPEL trial, primary care clinics in Louisianaintervention arm
- Participants
- 445 patients
- Comparison
- African American vs other racial groups
- Primary endpoint
- Mediation of the race–weight loss relationship by treatment engagement, psychosocial and lifestyle factors
Methodological detailscounterfactual mediation analysis, cluster-randomized, two-arm, primary care clinics
- Counterfactual mediation analysis
- Cluster-randomized
- Two-arm
- Primary care clinics
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Proportion of racial differences in weight loss mediated
Daily weighing mediated, at 6 months (p = 0.008)
33%
Session attendance mediated, at 24 months (p = 0.027)
35%
Daily weighing mediated, at 24 months (p = 0.005)
66%
Original publication
Predictors of racial differences in weight loss: the PROPEL trial. Obesity (Silver Spring). Published 6 December 2023. doi:10.
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