Predictors of Weight Loss Maintenance following an Insurance-Sponsored Weight Management Program
Table 6
Final model predicting weight loss maintenance ().
Wald
OR (95% CI)
Preprogram MVPA
None (sedentary)
130
—
Any activity
298
0.05
Perceived Phase I weight loss
Good/excellent
227
—
1.00
Acceptable
112
0.79
8.17
2.21 (1.28–3.80)**
Poor/disappointing
89
−0.48
2.14
0.62 (0.33–1.18)
Months in the program
>12
95
—
>6–12
181
1.63
≤6
152
0.05
Perceived difficulty of sticking with diet changes
Difficult to extremely difficult
331
—
Easy to extremely easy
97
2.67
Perceived difficulty of continuing exercise routine
Difficult to extremely difficult
313
—
1.00
Easy to extremely easy
115
0.88
10.63
2.40 (1.42–4.06)***
Current level of physical activity
Meeting guidelines
146
—
Insufficiently active
200
0.76
Sedentary
82
0.18
Months after program
24
121
—
1.00
12–24
145
0.59
4.04
1.81 (1.02–3.23)*
6–12
98
0.98
10.60
2.67 (1.78–4.84)***
≤6
64
0.18
0.23
1.20 (0.57–2.54)
Self-weighing frequency
At least once every day
36
—
1.00
At least once per week but not daily
207
−0.79
3.32
0.45 (0.19–1.06)
Less than once per week
127
−0.96
12.12
0.39 (0.23–0.66)***
Never
58
0.27
0.45
1.31 (0.59–2.91)
Limiting snacking in the evening
No
188
—
1.00
Yes
240
0.75
9.87
2.12 (1.33–3.38)**
Limiting portion size at meals
No
180
—
1.00
Yes
248
0.69
8.27
1.99 (1.25–3.19)**
Note: MVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. ; ; . The Wald statistic, which indicates whether for each variable is significantly different than zero, and the variable is a significant predictor of weight loss maintenance and is reported for all variables, but an OR is only reported for significant predictors. Each variable is presented in the order in which the repeated contrasts were conducted. Thus within each variable, each level moving down the rows of the table should be compared with the level of the variable in the row immediately above it. Thus, ORs should be interpreted as the change in the likelihood of achieving weight loss maintenance that results in a one-unit increase in the predictor variable represented by a move one row down in the table.
