- Title
- Long-term outcomes from healthy eating and exercise lifestyle program for overweight people with heart disease and diabetes
- Creator
- Alharbi, Muaddi; Gallagher, Robyn; Kirkness, Ann; Sibbritt, David; Tofler, Geoffrey
- Relation
- European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing Vol. 15, Issue 1, p. 91-99
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474515114557222
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Background: The benefits of exercise and weight reduction for overweight or obese people with coronary heart disease and/or diabetes mellitus are well recognised. The Healthy Eating and Exercise Lifestyle Program demonstrated these outcomes at 4 months, but longer-term outcomes are not yet reported. Aim: To determine whether positive weight, body mass index, waist and exercise duration outcomes were sustained in the long term (12 months) and to identify the independent predictors of these outcomes at 4 and 12 months. Methods: Longitudinal design, combining data of all Healthy Eating and Exercise Lifestyle Program participants (intervention and wait-list control, n = 134). Participants had a body mass index between 27 and 39 kg/m2and had completed cardiac rehabilitation and/or diabetes education programmes. Healthy Eating and Exercise Lifestyle Program intervention included an active phase of two 1-hour group-based supervised structured exercise sessions every week for 4 months and four 90-minute group information and support sessions. The maintenance phase included one 90-minute group-based booster information session and three 15-minute goal-focused telephone follow-up calls over 8 months. Results: Participants had statistically significant reductions from baseline in weight, body mass index and waist circumference and improvements in exercise duration and capacity at 4 and 12 months. Time, self-efficacy, depressive symptoms and male gender were independent predictors for body mass index, waist and/or exercise duration (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The Healthy Eating and Exercise Lifestyle Program was an effective programme to achieve and sustain weight loss and increase exercise participation over 1 year.
- Subject
- overweight; obesity; coronary heart disease; diabetes; weight loss; exercise
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340514
- Identifier
- uon:28500
- Identifier
- ISSN:1474-5151
- Language
- eng
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