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Successful Weight Loss Maintenance: Implications to the Transformative Learning Theory
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This presentation will present findings from a qualitative study that used a transformational learning lens to focus on exploring the meaning-making process associated with weight loss maintenance.
Target Audience
Exploring the experiences of the meaning-making journey of successful weight loss maintenance is of interest to adult educators, students, health researchers, health educators, nurses, physicians, and other members commonly seen on a weight management team. The medical community can find purpose in helping patients engage in meaningful, healthy behaviors change. Additionally, by understanding a patient's story, this research can advocate from the patient's perspective, which can be used ro spark change in the work flow of the modern medical paradigm.
Learning Outcomes
Learner's will:
1. Describe the dynamics of the successful weight loss experience, including behaviors, cognition, perceptions, and self-image.
2. Explore how individuals make meaning of their successful weight loss experience and how that process can lead to perspective transformation.
3. Examine the key learning outcomes and processes of the successful weight loss experience that impacts adult learning.
obesity is positioned in the media and to serve as a platform to critically examine how media impact personal beliefs and assumptions of this disease that can impact the adult learner and facilitate transformative learning.
Session Description
Leading health agencies such as the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the prevalence of overweight and obese adults has steadily increased over the years across gender, age, race, ethnicity, and educational levels. Fortunately, it is shown that even modest weight loss can reduce health risks. However, little is known of the weight loss maintenance experience and its impact on learning outcomes and learning processes that could lead to permanent change. The timeliness of this study can add to the adult education literature and obesity literature that focuses on the lived experience of successful weight loss in light of the multi-dimensional viewpoints of obesity through a critical transformative learning lens and whether that trigger is reflected upon, or if a person changes their assumptions that can lead to a perspective transformation.
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Primary Presenter
Rebecca Ann Stametz, MPH, Pennsylvania State University
Work Title
Operations Lead, Clinical Innovation Research & Evaluation