PubMed ID:
25599077
Public Release Type:
Journal
Publication Year: 2014
Affiliation: Office of Energetics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA ; Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2014.00025
Authors:
Affuso O,
Allison DB,
Desmond R,
Kaiser KA
Request IDs:
87
Studies:
Diabetes Prevention Program
Understanding participant demographic characteristics that inform the optimal design of obesity RCTs have been examined in few studies. The objective of this study was to investigate the association of individual participant characteristics and dropout rates (DORs) in obesity randomized controlled trials (RCT) by pooling data from several publicly available datasets for analyses. We comprehensively characterize DORs and patterns in obesity RCTs at the individual study level, and describe how such rates and patterns vary as a function of individual-level characteristics.