• Eat Weight Disord · Dec 2002

    Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial

    Interdisciplinary treatment of a female outpatient population. Organizational model and preliminary results.

    • V Boschi, M Siervo, G Nasti, E Trapanese, P D'Orsi, E Augelli, A Papa, N Margiotta, O Bellini, and C Falconi.
    • Department of Neurobehavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy. boschi@unina.it
    • Eat Weight Disord. 2002 Dec 1;7(4):268-75.

    ObjectiveTo compare the efficacy of diet alone vs interdisciplinary therapy.Method256 women were divided into an interdisciplinary therapy group composed of 102 subjects and a control group composed of 154 subjects treated by means of diet alone.Results21.56% of the interdisciplinary group did not come for the 2 check-ups compared with 49.35% of the diet group (p < 0.001). A weight loss of 5.88 kg and 4.18 kg for the interdisciplinary and the diet group was recorded 8 weeks after the start of the programme (second check-up).DiscussionInterdisciplinary therapy is necessary to personalize treatment and satisfy the patient's desire and need for appropriate and effective management.

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