Preventing Chronic Disease | Training Veterans to Provide Peer Support in a Weight-Management Program: MOVE! - CDC

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has implemented MOVE!, a weight-management program for veterans designed to address the increasing proportion of overweight and obese veterans. The objective of our study was to determine whether peer support employing motivational interviewing (MI) could positively influence lifestyle changes, thus expanding the reach of the MOVE! program.


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  • SourceUrl: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2013/13_0084.htm
  • Syndication ID: 9790
  • Language: English
  • Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Date Syndication Captured: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 10:32 PM
  • Date Syndication Updated: Monday, May 23, 2016 at 10:32 PM

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