{"doi":"10.1002/osp4.70066","title":"Feasibility and Acceptability of Behavioral Weight Loss Programs for Men in Trade and Labor Occupations: A Pilot Study","abstract":"Objective: Men who work in trade and labor occupations experience high rates of obesity but are underrepresented in weight control programs. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of a program tailored to this working group compared with a standard (untailored) weight loss program. Methods: Participants for this study were recruited via direct mail, a university medical center, and other efforts. They were randomly assigned to either a tailored program or a standard program. Both programs were delivered via 16 one-hour virtual group sessions over six months. Semi-structured interviews and self-reports were used to assess the acceptability of the interventions. Feasibility was assessed using recruitment metrics and proportion group sessions and completed study assessments. Results: = 28; median 44.0 years, 31.8 BMI) were recruited into the study over 7 months, and 71% and 79% were retained for assessments at 3 and 6 months. Participants attended a median of 9.5 (tailored) and 5 (standard) of the 16 group sessions. All participants who completed the 6-month assessment in both groups reported that they would recommend the programs to other men. Participants achieved a median weight loss of 2.3% at 6 months (tailored: -3.0%; standard: -1.9%). Conclusions: This study suggests that tailoring strategies identified in the formative work were feasible and potentially capable of producing weight loss similar to a standard program. Future research should focus on increasing recruitment and engagement before proceeding to a fully powered efficacy trial. Trial Registration: NCT05386238.","journal":"Obesity Science & Practice","year":2025,"id":562886,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9614,"is_data_producer":true,"deposit_databanks":{"ClinicalTrials.gov":["NCT05386238"]},"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1465763,"name":"Catherine Feit","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":233258,"name":"Chen Yeh","orcid":"0000-0003-1320-3870","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1465764,"name":"M Ortiz","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":364013,"name":"Bradley M. Appelhans","orcid":"0000-0002-5195-802X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":372484,"name":"Melissa M. Crane","orcid":"0000-0002-1458-2692","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":48,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:56:09.638214Z","pmid":"40918631","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}