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The Impact of Telemonitoring and Health Coaching on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales in Overweight and Obese Individuals

Version 1 : Received: 30 October 2024 / Approved: 31 October 2024 / Online: 31 October 2024 (10:41:24 CET)

How to cite: Eid, N. M.; Al-ofi, E. A.; Enani, S.; Mosli, R. H.; Saqr, R. R.; Qutah, K. M.; Eid, S. M. The Impact of Telemonitoring and Health Coaching on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales in Overweight and Obese Individuals. Preprints 2024, 2024102526. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2526.v1 Eid, N. M.; Al-ofi, E. A.; Enani, S.; Mosli, R. H.; Saqr, R. R.; Qutah, K. M.; Eid, S. M. The Impact of Telemonitoring and Health Coaching on Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales in Overweight and Obese Individuals. Preprints 2024, 2024102526. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.2526.v1

Abstract

(1) Background: The literature has demonstrated several pathways which links obesity and stress. Thus, new approaches of weight management programs must also integrate health coach-ing and telemonitoring for overall health and wellbeing. The aim of the study is to measure stress, anxiety, and depression scales (DASS-21) in overweight and obese participants who joined a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) and the association between changes in DASS-21 scores and changes in anthropometric measures.; (2) Methods: 50 participants have been enrolled in a ran-domized controlled trial and divided in two groups; Intervention group who received a hy-pocaloric diet remotely, weekly telemonitoring and monthly health coaching; Control group who only followed a the hypocaloric diet without any support. The Arabic version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) was used to measure depression, anxiety, and stress scales; (3) Results: Data revealed that participants from the intervention group had a significant decrease in anxiety scales after 3months when compared to the control group. In addition, correlation be-tween depression, anxiety, stress, and all anthropometric measures in the intervention group showed a moderate significant positive correlation between changes in waist circumference and depression. (4) Conclusions: Findings confirms that integrating health coaching and telemonitor-ing have a strong potential in improving wellbeing and weight loss.

Keywords

Obesity; Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21); Telenutrition; Telemonitoring; Health Coaching

Subject

Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services

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