The relationship of social support with treatment adherence and weight loss in Latinos with type 2 diabetes

Latino adults with type 2 diabetes who had family and friends join in physical activity at baseline achieved 2.5 percentage points greater weight loss at 1 year compared to those without such support

Effect: improvement; beta = -2.10 (SE 0.84)

Participants who had family and friends join in physical activity at baseline reported 57 more weekly minutes of physical activity during the first year of the intensive lifestyle intervention compare

Effect: improvement; beta = 57.2 (SE 13.7)

Participants who had family and friends join in physical activity at baseline attended approximately 2 more intervention sessions during the first year compared to those without such support (beta=1.8

Effect: improvement; beta = 1.89 (SE 0.92)

Weekly minutes of physical activity completely mediated the relationship between social support for physical activity and weight change at 1 year; the indirect effect through PA was -0.85 (95% bootstr

Effect: improvement; Indirect effect = -0.85 (SE 0.31); CI: 95% Bootstrap CI [-1.56, -0.33]

Having family and friends assist with grocery shopping and food preparation was not associated with weight change at 1 year among Latino participants in the intensive lifestyle intervention (beta=0.51

Effect: null; beta = 0.51 (SE 0.76)

The effect of marital status on meal replacement consumption was moderated by sex: married Latino males consumed more meal replacements than non-married males, while married Latina females consumed fe

Effect: mixed

Latino participants in the Look AHEAD intensive lifestyle intervention lost an average of 8.1% of initial body weight at 1 year, with no significant difference between males (-7.8%, SD 6.0) and female

Effect: improvement; -8.1% body weight (SD 6.0)