Publication details
Motivace obézních pacientů k redukci hmotnosti - Aneb proč chtějí obézní ženy a muži hubnout?
| Title in English | Reduction Treatment Motivation in Obese Patients - Why Do the Obese Women and Men Want to Grow Slim? |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | The aim of the study is to explore the reduction treatment motivation in obese patients. The research is based on 125 participating obese individuals, 93 women and 32 men, aged 17 - 70 years (the average age was 46,5 years) with average BMI 41,24 kg/m2. Through the use of the structured interview and the five-item response scale we found that with increasing confidence in the reduction treatment, the obese have just entered at the obesitology department, their activity and motivation increases as well. The strongest motives are health, physical condition, avoidance of pain and atractivity; among others emerged social factors, self-esteem, psychical well being, posterity, employment and others. The content of motivation differs depending on the sex: men mentioned most frequently health, physical condition and atractivity, women mentioned most often health, atractivity and social factors. The obese wish to reduce almost quarter of their actual body weight. The extension of expected reduction is not related to the sex but lightly to the age and strongly to the actual BMI. |
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