SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2025
The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Factors associated with eating behaviors of young and middle-aged adults with overweight and obesity: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of behavioral weight management interventions on eating behavior traits in adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- An individual participant data meta-analysis investigating the mediating role of eating behavior traits in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based weight management interventions.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Pooled it
- An Interventional Study Exploring the Effects of Nutritional Psychoeducation on Emotional Eating After 3 Months.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Trial
- Changes in eating behavior in people with obesity after the use of a mobile health behavior change support system: an 18-month randomized controlled trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Psychological Determinants of the Weight Cycle: A Review of Perceived Stress and Self-Efficacy.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Beyond diagnosis: a network approach to the emotional and control processes involved in the binge eating spectrum disorders.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Changes to Weight Bias Internalization and Eating Behaviors in Adults Aged 50+ With Overweight or Obesity During a Structured 12-Week Behavioral Weight Management Intervention.Obesity science & practice · 2026Article
- The Genetic Blueprint of Obesity: From Pathogenesis to Novel Therapies.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Review
- Recent Progress in the Management of Obesity: Advances and Insights from the Latest Research.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Efficacy of non-pharmacological treatments in pediatric MASLD: a review of the literature.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
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Abstract
Eating behavior traits (EBTs), defined as personal tendencies determining food intake, can be useful targets for behavioral weight management interventions. Previous reviews have examined the impact of specific intervention types on EBTs, not reflecting the breadth of interventions used in practice. This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesized evidence on the impact of all types of behavioral weight management interventions on EBTs. We searched seven databases and included randomized controlled trials reporting EBT outcomes following behavioral weight management interventions delivered to adults with overweight or obesity. Using random-effects meta-analyses, we synthesized findings from 27 trials at the end of intervention and 12 months (±3 months) post intervention. We found evidence to suggest that interventions improved uncontrolled eating, external eating, susceptibility to hunger, restraint and intuitive eating at intervention end when compared with waitlist, minimal or usual care control. We found no evidence of effects on emotional eating, disinhibition, and hedonic hunger. At follow-up, effects on restraint remained, but we found no evidence of an effect on emotional eating, hedonic hunger and uncontrolled eating. Findings were limited by low numbers of contributing trials. More high-quality trials reporting EBTs are needed to better understand the impact of adult behavioral weight management interventions on EBTs. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42022367505.
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