A Comparative Study of Effectiveness on Life- style Modification and Cognitive Group Therapy to Weight Management and Quality of Life Enhancement

This study aimed to comparing the effectiveness of life- style modification and cognitive group therapy to weight reduction and improving the quality of life. Hence, among volunteers to interventions, 26 participants regarding to exclude- include criteria were participated on this study randomly assigned into two groups. All the items of quality of life and overweight: the obesity related well- being questionnaire were filled out by all the participants prior to, 4 months, and seven months later than onset of the interventions, and their BMI were calculated, too. Gathering data were analyzed by 16th version of SPSS, and by applying repeated measures method. Finding revealed that both life- style modification group therapy and cognitive group therapy significantly reduced BMI and improving quality of life (p<0.05).