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September 11, 2025Interactive Journal of Medical ResearchOpen Access

Shifting Focus: Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of a Non-Weight-Centric Approach to Obesity Prevention in Rural and Urban Female Adolescents: A Quasi-Experimental Study (Preprint)

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AZAreeg ZuairRJRola Adnan JallounNANaif S. Alzahrani

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Overview

Quasi-experimental study finds non-weight-centric interventions improve knowledge and reduce sedentary behavior in adolescents, indicating potential for cultural adaptation.

Key Points

  • The Green Apple program showed a significant increase in knowledge about metabolic health in participants.
  • The enhanced intervention group demonstrated a greater improvement in knowledge compared to the standard intervention, showing an increase of 1.65.
  • Sedentary behavior decreased significantly in rural schools receiving the Green Apple intervention, emphasizing the program's potential effectiveness.
  • The study highlights the importance of non-weight-centric approaches in obesity prevention without negative impacts on body image.

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Zuair et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d413f8713b0b5dfea61e33https://doi.org/10.2196/71341
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