Todd McGuire

• B.S. Human Resource Management, Information Systems, Organization Management
• Data Visualization Specialist at Data Methods

Background: High attrition following initial enrollment in evidence-based weight loss programs is a common, challenging, and under-studied issue. A behavioral economics approach consisting of modest monetary incentives may help to engage participants beyond enrollment to close the initial attrition gap. Purpose: To describe the methods and desig...

Evidence supports the use of technology supported multicomponent interventions for promoting weight loss. Many such programs include the opportunity to synchronously pair commercially available physical activity trackers (PA-T) with a goal to enhance weight loss outcomes. However, little is known about the reach and effectiveness of allowing partic...

This study assessed the lifetime health and economic consequences of an efficacious scalable community weight loss program for overweight and obese adults. We applied a state-transition Markov model to project lifetime economic outcome (US dollar) and the degree of disease averted as a result of a weight loss intervention, compared with no interven...

Background: Primary care addresses obesity through physician oversight of intensive lifestyle interventions or referral to external programs with demonstrated efficacy. However, limited information on community program reach, effectiveness, and costs across different groups of participants exists. Objective: To evaluate a scalable, community weigh...