Comparison of supportive-offline therapy focused on acceptance and commitment and online group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on weight management self-efficacy in overweight or obese people

The aim of this study was the compare supportive-offline therapy focused on acceptance and commitment and online group therapy based on acceptance and commitment to weight management self-efficacy in overweight or obese people. This study was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group. The statistical population of the research included all the people who were invited to this study from the acceptance and commitment clinic during the call between March 2021 and May 2021 in the number of 38 people. From the mentioned population, 30 people who met the criteria for entering the research were selected by purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to three groups of 10 people (two experimental groups and one control group). The measurement tool of this study was the weight management self-efficacy questionnaire) WELSQ). In order to analyze the data, multivariate covariance analysis was used. The findings showed that in both experience groups, the average scores of the post-test had changed compared to the pre-test(P<0.05). the pairwise comparison of the groups showed that in the subscale of self-efficacy during positive activities, the effectiveness of the supportive-offline therapy was more than the online-group therapy(P<0.05). Regarding other subscales, no significant difference was found between the effectiveness of these two methods(P>0.05). From these findings, it can be concluded that if overweight people do not want to receive face-to-face interventions, non-face-to-face interventions can be used as an alternative solution.