The potential role of tailored messaging: this behavioral intervention could mitigate medically induced weight gain.(WEIGHT MANAGEMENT)

From: Behavioral Healthcare | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: McPheeters, Melissa; Strecher, Vic | Copyright information

Weight gain is a well-known side effect of many medical treatments for psychiatric illness, including antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers. (1) The amount of and mechanisms for weight gain differ in the various drug classes, but in general weight gain generates substantial concern.

Efforts to understand and manage treatment-associated weight gain stem from its association with medication noncompliance and discontinuation, (2) as well as clinically releva...

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