Relationship between Social support & Weight management

09 September 2017

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This research aims to investigate the reliability (is the questionnaire accurate?) and validity (does the questionnaire measure what it is intended to measure?) of the Support for Weight Management Scale (SWMS).

Keywords

• Australian National University
• social support
• Weight management
• psychology
• Clinical psychology
• psychology
• Overweight
• Obesity
• weight loss
• Exercise
• Eating behaviour
• Diet
• daily activities
• workout
• Physical Activity
• Physical Activity and Health
• Physical Activity: Exercise: Muscle: Weight loss: Training
• Health
• health and well-being

Ethical approval

The ethical aspects of this research have been approved by the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (Protocol 2017/508). If you have any concerns or complaints about how this research has been conducted, please contact:

Ethics Manager
The ANU Human Research Ethics Committee
The Australian National University
Telephone: +61 2 6125 3427

About the researcher

Researchers:
Dr Elizabeth Rieger (Associate Professor, Research School of Psychology, ANU) and Yee Fong Lee (Masters candidate, Research School of Psychology, ANU).

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