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Body Image ; 23: 155-161, 2017 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29035748

ABSTRACT

Poor adherence poses a major barrier to the success of behavioral weight loss (BWL) programs, particularly for overweight Mexican American women. Given the high prevalence and costs of overweight/obesity, factors that contribute to attendance and adherence problems should be identified, especially in ethnic minority populations. The current study examined the role of pre-treatment body dissatisfaction and depression in predicting attendance and adherence in a BWL intervention. Ninety-nine overweight/obese Mexican American women enrolled in the intervention and completed baseline measures. Eighty-one of the women attended at least one treatment session and provided measures of dietary and physical activity adherence. Simultaneous linear regression analyses suggested that although higher levels of body dissatisfaction and depression each played unique roles in predicting poorer attendance, only body dissatisfaction predicted adherence. Specifically, higher body dissatisfaction predicted poorer treatment adherence. Findings highlight the importance of addressing body dissatisfaction early in BWL treatment to increase attendance and adherence.


Subject(s)
Body Image/psychology , Mexican Americans/psychology , Overweight/ethnology , Overweight/therapy , Treatment Adherence and Compliance/ethnology , Weight Reduction Programs/methods , Adult , Aged , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Young Adult
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Eat Behav ; 18: 186-91, 2015 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26117164

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To examine if implicit emotion regulation (occurring outside of awareness) is related to binge eating disorder (BED) symptomatology and explicit emotion regulation (occurring within awareness), and can be altered via intervention. METHODS: Implicit emotion regulation was assessed via the Emotion Conflict Task (ECT) among a group of adults with BED. Study 1 correlated BED symptomatology and explicit emotion regulation with ECT performance at baseline (BL) and after receiving BED treatment (PT). Study 2 generated effect sizes comparing ECT performance at BL and PT with healthy (non-eating disordered) controls (HC). RESULTS: Study 1 yielded significant correlations (p<.05) between both BED symptomatology and explicit emotion regulation with ECT performance. Study 2 found that compared to BL ECT performance, PT shifted (d=-.27), closer to HC. Preliminary results suggest a) BED symptomatology and explicit emotion regulation are associated with ECT performance, and b) PT ECT performance normalized after BED treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Implicit emotion regulation may be a BED treatment mechanism because psychotherapy, directly or indirectly, decreased sensitivity to implicit emotional conflict. Further understanding implicit emotion regulation may refine conceptualizations and effective BED treatments.


Subject(s)
Awareness , Binge-Eating Disorder/psychology , Emotions , Adult , Binge-Eating Disorder/therapy , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Treatment Outcome
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J Behav Med ; 36(3): 259-69, 2013 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22487966

ABSTRACT

Adherence to behavioral weight management programs is often limited, especially among ethnic minority populations. The current study examined whether attitudinal familism, or attention to the needs of family above those of the self, predicted poorer adherence to a behavioral weight management program in Mexican-American women. One-hundred overweight or obese Mexican-American women from the southwestern United States were enrolled in a group-based weight loss treatment. Zero-order correlations indicated that general commitment to attitudinal familism, as measured by the Attitudinal Familism Scale, was significantly negatively associated with calorie and physical activity goal completion and marginally negatively associated with session attendance. The results of the current study indicate that researchers may consider addressing familism when developing tailored weight management interventions for Mexican-American women.


Subject(s)
Attitude to Health , Family/psychology , Mexican Americans/psychology , Obesity/ethnology , Obesity/therapy , Overweight/ethnology , Overweight/therapy , Patient Compliance/psychology , Social Values , Weight Reduction Programs , Acculturation , Adult , Aged , Behavior Therapy , Culture , Energy Intake , Group Processes , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Motivation , Motor Activity , Obesity/psychology , Overweight/psychology , Patient Dropouts/psychology , Social Support , Southwestern United States , Young Adult
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J Subst Abuse Treat ; 43(1): 129-36, 2012 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22154038

ABSTRACT

In a randomized clinical pilot study, 40 concerned significant others (CSOs) of treatment-refusing alcohol- and drug-using individuals were randomized to either Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) conducted in a group format (Group CRAFT) or a Self-Directed CRAFT condition. Although results indicated no significant between-group difference in engaging treatment-refusing substance-using individuals (referred to as identified patients or IPs) into treatment, the engagement rate in Group CRAFT was similar to rates previously reported with individual CRAFT. For the intent-to-treat analysis, 60% of Group CRAFT CSOs engaged their loved one into treatment, as compared with 40% in Self-Directed CRAFT. Of CSOs in the Group condition who received at least one session of group therapy, 71% engaged their IP into treatment. CSOs in both conditions reported improvements in family cohesion and conflict at the 3- and 6-month follow-up, replicating prior CRAFT findings.


Subject(s)
Alcoholism/rehabilitation , Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology , Substance-Related Disorders/rehabilitation , Treatment Refusal/psychology , Adult , Aged , Alcoholism/psychology , Family Therapy/methods , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pilot Projects , Reinforcement, Social , Substance-Related Disorders/psychology , Time Factors
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Addict Behav ; 33(12): 1572-80, 2008 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18778899

ABSTRACT

Cognitive models of alcohol abuse posit that the context typically associated with alcohol use, such as negative affect, implicitly activates alcohol use cognitions, which in turn leads to alcohol consumption. We selected 40 undergraduate women based upon their alcohol use and reported anxiety sensitivity, and proposed that drinking for the purpose of negative reinforcement would predict increased semantic priming between anxiety and alcohol concepts. A lexical decision task compared the response latencies of alcohol targets preceded by anxiety words to those same targets preceded by neutral words (anxiety-alcohol priming). Level of anxiety sensitivity did not relate to anxiety-alcohol priming, but drinking following social conflict was associated with increased anxiety-alcohol priming. This study specifically suggests that the contextual antecedents to drinking behavior relate to the organization of semantic information about alcohol, and more generally supports cognitive models of substance abuse.


Subject(s)
Alcohol Drinking/psychology , Anxiety/psychology , Cognition/physiology , Reinforcement, Psychology , Semantics , Female , Humans , Models, Psychological , Task Performance and Analysis , Word Association Tests , Young Adult
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Int J Eat Disord ; 41(5): 448-57, 2008 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18433029

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: We examined the influence of thin ideal internalization on body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in Mexican girls. METHOD: We sampled 137 public school girls aged 12-15 from a small city in Mexico. Participants were given Spanish versions of the sociocultural attitudes toward appearance scale, two measures of body dissatisfaction, the eating attitudes test, and the attitudinal familism scale. RESULTS: Thin ideal internalization mediated the relationship between thin ideal awareness and body dissatisfaction, and the relationship between thin ideal awareness and eating disorder symptoms. Attitudinal familism was negatively correlated with thin ideal internalization for girls outside of the normal weight range. CONCLUSION: Mexican girls are at risk of eating disorder symptoms, and there is support for the sociocultural model of disordered eating in this population. Hispanic family values may mark protection from thin ideal internalization in Mexican girls outside of the normal weight range.


Subject(s)
Body Image , Ethnicity/psychology , Feeding and Eating Disorders/ethnology , Internal-External Control , Thinness/ethnology , Adolescent , Awareness , Body Mass Index , Child , Cross-Cultural Comparison , Cross-Sectional Studies , Ethnicity/statistics & numerical data , Feeding and Eating Disorders/epidemiology , Feeding and Eating Disorders/psychology , Female , Health Surveys , Humans , Mexico , Risk Factors , Social Environment , Social Values , Socioeconomic Factors , Surveys and Questionnaires , Thinness/epidemiology , Thinness/psychology
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