Development of a Screening Questionnaire to Study Attrition in Weight-Control Programs
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 64 (3), 1007-1016
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1989.64.3.1007
Abstract
Several environmental, social, personal and demographic factors are related to the likelihood that an individual will drop out of a weight-control program. This paper identifies such factors and proposes a research instrument to study attrition in adult weight-control programs.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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