Social embeddedness in an online weight management programme is linked to greater weight loss
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Social embeddedness in an online weight management programme is linked to greater weight loss.
The obesity epidemic is heightening chronic disease risk globally. Online weight management (OWM) communities could potentially promote weight loss among large numbers of people at low cost. Because little is known about the impact of these online communities, we examined the relationship between individual and social network variables, and weight loss in a large, international OWM programme. W...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1742-5689,1742-5662
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0686