Retrospective Long-Term Comparison of Naturopathic Fasting Therapy and Weight Reduction Diet in Overweight Patients

Table 1

Reasons for exclusion from the phone interview.

	Fasting patients	Weight reduction diet patients
No longer valid phone number and no entry in a public phone book	19 (24%)	6 (21%)
Not reached	6 (8%)	2 (7%)
Refused to participate	15 (19%)	5 (18%)
Unable to remember the situations in question sufficiently	5 (6%)	2 (7%)
Insufficient German language skills	2 (3%)	1 (4%)
Participation in other organized weight reduction programs in the meantime	19 (24%)	3 (11%)
Malignant disease	5 (6%)	2 (7%)
Already dead	4 (5%)	5 (18%)
Bedridden	1 (1%)	0
Undergone intestinal resection	1 (1%)	0
Hospitalization because of an acute stroke at the time of the telephone interview	1 (1%)	0
Moved abroad	0	1 (4%)
Development of dementia	0	1 (4%)