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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.
Authors
Affuso O, Allison DB, Desmond R, Kaiser KA
Studies
Citation
Kaiser KA, Affuso O, Desmond R, Allison DB. Baseline participant characteristics and risk for dropout from ten obesity randomized controlled trials: a pooled analysis of individual level data. Front Nutr 2014;1. (25).Abstract
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.