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2022 Aug 12


Mil Med

Baseline Characteristics and Their Associations with Body Composition of Active-Duty Service Members Enrolling in a Randomized Controlled Trial of a Weight Management Program.

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Abstract

Increasing rates of overweight and obesity among military service members (SMs) necessitate the implementation of weight management interventions. Evidence for the effectiveness of military weight management interventions is mixed. Effectiveness may be impacted by individual sociodemographic, psychiatric, psychological, and behavioral factors. Baseline data from SMs who were overweight/obese or at risk of failing body composition or physical fitness tests and enrolling in a weight management randomized controlled trial were used to examine (1) individual characteristics of this sample as a whole and by gender and (2) relationships between those characteristics and body composition metrics that are targeted by military weight management interventions. Understanding these relationships may inform intervention approaches.