Retention Among Participants in the National Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Change Program, 2012–2017

Pretreatment, Psychological, and Behavioral Predictors of Weight Outcomes Among Lifestyle Intervention Participants in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)

OBJECTIVE To identify the most important pretreatment characteristics and changes in psychological and behavioral factors that predict weight outcomes in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Approximately 25% of DPP lifestyle intervention participants (n = 274) completed questionnaires to assess weight history and psychological and behavioral factors at baseline ...

The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP): description of lifestyle intervention.

The purpose of the present article is to provide a detailed description of the highly successful lifestyle intervention administered to 1,079 participants, which included 45% racial and ethnic minorities and resulted in a 58% reduction in the incidence rate of diabetes (2). The two major goals of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lifestyle intervention were a minimum of 7% weight loss/weigh...

Participation in a National Lifestyle Change Program is associated with improved diabetes Control outcomes.

AIMS Clinical trials show lifestyle change programs are beneficial, yet large-scale, successful translation of these programs is scarce. We investigated the association between participation in the largest U.S. lifestyle change program, MOVE!, and diabetes control outcomes. METHODS This longitudinal, retrospective cohort study used Veterans Health Administration databases of patients with dia...

National Program on Amblyopia Prevention in Islamic Republic of Iran

The Impact of the Stabilization Program on the Learnings of the Participants in the Literacy Program

The Impact of the Stabilization Program on the Learnings of the Participants in the Literacy Program   R. Hassani, Ph.D.*   To explore the impact of the stabilization program on the learnings of the participants in the literacy program, a sample of 891 participants from six provinces in three categories of privileged, semi-privileged, and low-privileged was selected and tested rep...