Eva Vanbrabant, PhD candidate
Being part of the interdisciplinary ‘vici’ project ‘Understanding Overweight and Obesity: The End of Average’, Eva’s research tries to improve obesity treatment and follow-up. With a six-month clinical intervention study, overweight and obese participants are randomly assigned to a lifestyle intervention that is only information based, a control group, or to an intensive lifestyle intervention, including diet, physical activity and cognitive behavioral therapy. She investigates if and how the weight-loss-response to an intensive lifestyle intervention depends on comprehensive individual profiles and how these profiles relate to body weight at baseline, post-treatment and follow-up.
This comprehensive study aims to clarify which people benefit from an intensive lifestyle intervention, and why that is the case. Furthermore, to investigate how these individual profiles translate into daily life by collecting time-series data on (un)healthy eating and physical (in)activity, and predictors of this behavior, collected during a three-week measurement period at baseline and post-treatment to develop daily lifestyle networks for each individual. Additionally, Eva tries to cluster individual profiles and test if these are related to post-treatment daily lifestyle networks, and if these networks become healthier due to treatment, plus if networks can predict weight loss. Thus, the aim is to implement an individualized approach to obesity treatment and follow-up to improve obesity care and prevent relapse.
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