Prompting lifestyle interventions to promote weight loss is safe, effective and patient-centred: No

Angela Ballantyne; Denise Steers; Lesley Gray

doi:10.1071/HC23163

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Prompting lifestyle interventions to promote weight loss is safe, effective and patient-centred: No

Angela Ballantyne

¹ ² , Denise Steers ¹ ³ , Lesley Gray

¹ ² ^*

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¹ University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.

² Department of Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington/Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo ki Te Whanga-Nui-a-Tara, 6242, New Zealand/Aotearoa.

³ Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo ki Te Whanga-Nui-a-Tara, Wellington 6242, New Zealand/Aotearoa.

^* Correspondence to: lesley.gray@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(4) 385-387 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23163

Submitted: 1 December 2023 Accepted: 1 December 2023 Published: 18 December 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

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