Refining Novel Culturally Tailored Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment Components for Sexual Minority Women With Obesity

Rx Weight Loss: PRIDE is a fully automated online behavioral obesity treatment that is tailored for sexual minority women and involves viewing 12 online video lessons delivered each week, self-monitoring body weight, calorie intake, and physical activity levels, and receiving personalized automated weekly feedback on progress toward goals.

The Minority Stress Intervention is designed to help sexual minority women cope with stress and stigma (e.g., due to weight, sexual orientation, gender). In this program, participants watch online video lessons that teach cognitive and behavioral strategies for coping with minority stress so that it may have less of an influence on participants' weight and well-being.

The Negative Body Image Intervention is designed to help participants improve their body image. In this program, participants will watch online video lessons that provide education on queer women's body image and teach cognitive and behavioral strategies for improving your body image (regardless of your weight) to reduce its influence on your health.

The Social Support Intervention provides online opportunities for participants to receive more social support as they work toward their weight loss goals. Participants receive education on the importance of social support for weight management, they can earn badges for completing program milestones, and they gain access to a private online forum to get support and advice from other participants.