Strategies to Improve Adherence to Dietary Weight Loss Interventions in Research and Real-World Settings

 Introduction and Key Points Improving the overall diet of patients can be as simple as making small changes, but other times the big changes can discourage people from even attempting the changes. As many as 42.4% of adults in the United States are obese, which is a 26% increase from 2008 (Warren, Beck, and Delgado, 2020). This brings up the topic of, what type of interventions can improve adherence to recommendations on nutritional intake? Interventions for adherence to dietary changes including education, restriction, enablement, and outcomes are some that are listed; as well as “measures of diet adherence, dietary advice, nature of the chronic diseases and duration of interventions and follow-up” (Desroches, et al., 2013). Because this article reviewed so many different studies, there were not pooled results but a qualitative analysis. Article SearchWhen beginning the search for a related article, I started with Google Scholar to try to find a direction for my thoughts to go. Using the question provided as my search brought up a ton of articles, close to 60,000. To filter the results further, I made sure that the articles being shown were written within the last five years, had to be peer-reviewed and scholarly articles. Once I had a better understanding of key terms, I should use to find an article, I used PubMed with the following key terms: dietary adherence, weight loss, diets, and meal planning, to identify the article written in 2017, written by Alice Gibson and Amanda Sainsbury titled, Strategies to Improve Adherence to Dietary Weight Loss Interventions in Research and Real-World Settings. A larger reason as to why weight loss attempts end up unsuccessful is an increased drive to eat, so this is a large focus on improving adherence