The journal Preventive Medicine recently announced that the paper describing the effectiveness of Pro-Change Behavior System, Inc.’s multiple behavior LifeStyle Management Program for weight management ranked third on the list of top ten most frequently downloaded articles in 2009. The article entitled, “Transtheoretical Model-Based Multiple Behavior Intervention for Weight Management: Effectiveness on a Population Basis” was written by Sara Johnson, Andrea Paiva, Carol Cummins, and other colleagues at Pro-Change and originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of the journal. The paper summarizes how individualized, Transtheoretical Model-based interventions significantly impacted healthy eating, exercise, managing emotional distress, and weight at one year post-intervention and enhanced co-variation of behavior change in over 1200 overweight and obese participants. This weight management program is part of the LifeStyle Program Suite that received the Gold Award for Best Practices in Health Management from URAC in 2009.
Dr. Sara Johnson, Senior Vice President of Research and Product Development at Pro-Change, and the lead developer of the weight management program stated that, “Given the current epidemic of overweight and obesity, we’re pleased that the article is informing the field. Our goal is to widely disseminate evidence-based programs that can address the behaviors that can lead to effective weight management.”