Are There Any Effective Behavior Change Strategies for Communicating Genetic Risk in Obesity Prevention and Body Weight Reduction Interventions? - PubMed
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- Genetic risk communication alone or with phenotype-based risk is ineffective and can be counterproductive for low-risk individuals.
- Combining genetic risk communication with personalized behavioral counseling improves effectiveness, especially when compared to waitlist or non-personalized control groups.
- High-genetic risk subgroups benefit more within personalized counseling, using techniques like problem-solving, feedback, self-monitoring, and environmental changes.
- Complex interventions integrating genetic risk communication across multiple sessions and combining numerous behavior change techniques (e.g., social reward, cues, self-reward) show the most promise.
- The review suggests that experiential genetic risk awareness, paired with multiple behavior change strategies, can enhance weight, nutrition, and exercise outcomes.