Determinants of Successful Weight Loss in Low-Income African American Women: A Positive Deviance Analysis

• Main Authors: Elaine Seaton Banerjee (Author), Sharon J. Herring (Author), Katelyn Hurley (Author), Katherine Puskarz (Author), Kyle Yebernetsky (Author), Marianna LaNoue (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: We set out to investigate the behaviors of low-income African American women who successfully lost weight. Methods: From an urban, academic, family medicine practice, we used a mixed methods positive deviance approach to evaluate 35 low-income African American women who were obese and los...