EFFECTS OF A SELF-CONTROL TRAINNING APPLIED TO OBESE PATIENTS

• Main Authors: Nagela Valadão Cade, Elizeu Borloti, Andréa Rosalém Vieira e Roriz Perin, Kelly Ambrósio Silveira, Ludmila Ferraz, Margareth Pereira Bergamim
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2009-03-01
• Series: Cogitare Enfermagem
• Subjects: Behavioral control; Patient education; Obesity; Methods
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/ce.v14i1.14117

Descriptive and qualitative study using an intra-subject experimental design. It verifies the effect of self-control training (TA) on the behavioral factors that influence overweight and describes the variables that interfere inreaching the individual goals. The TA was applied to obese women that were patients at an public hospital in Vitória-ES,Brazil, during 12 week group sessions. From 10 patients that enrolled the TA, the behavior of five of them was analyzed.The results points out to favorable changes in familial, interpersonal, and personal relationships and emotions. Behavioralmodifications were related to weight loss such as eating behavior and exercises that produced modest consequences on obesity.