Topic: Obesity, Nutrition/Diet, Physical Activity
Target Population: Adults, Military Families, Service Members
Sector: Community-Based
Military Sector: All Branches
This program is for TRICARE-eligible adults who are healthy and want to maintain a healthy weight or lose a small amount of weight.
Healthy Weighs for Life (Healthy Weighs), a community-based, online weight management program, is designed to deliver information, strategies, and resources to help adults make small lifestyle changes that can lead to long-term weight maintenance and improved health.
No peer-reviewed publications evaluating the effectiveness of this program were located.
Healthy Weighs is free, self-paced, flexible, and includes the following modules which are either self-guided or video presentations:
For most topics, related resources, interactive worksheets, educational handouts, and web links are also available.
Healthy Weighs is offered to all branches of the military through Health Net and TRICARE Insurance; however, previous use information was not located.
No training is necessary as Healthy Weighs is delivered entirely by Health Net’s web-based services.
Considerations for implementing this program include understanding that the program must be delivered by Health Net's web-based services, acquiring buy-in and a high level of motivation and commitment from participants as there are no external motivators (e.g., teacher, classmates, and scheduled classes) to progress, and ensuring participants have access to a computer and the internet.
The Clearinghouse can help address these considerations. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
If you are interested in implementing Healthy Weighs, the Clearinghouse is interested in helping you!
Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
This program is self-paced.
No information about implementation costs was located.
To move the Healthy Weighs program to the Promising category on the Clearinghouse Continuum of Evidence, at least one evaluation should be performed demonstrating positive effects lasting at least one year from the beginning of the program or at least six months from program completion.
The Clearinghouse can help you develop an evaluation plan to ensure the program components are meeting your goals. Please call 1-877-382-9185 or email Clearinghouse@psu.edu
Contact the Clearinghouse with any questions regarding this program.
Phone: 1-877-382-9185 Email: Clearinghouse@psu.edu
You may also contact Health Net Federal Services by visiting https://www.tricare-west.com/content/hnfs/home/tw/common/contact_us.html
