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A third assessment was conducted two months after the last session. Measures included an assessment of demographic characteristics, body mass index (BMI), a Religious Health Promoting Behaviors Inventory (RHPBI), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). The sessions focused on healthy eating tips and exposure to the principle of \u201cgodliness versus selfishness.\u201d<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Results indicated that those in the intervention group experienced significant weight loss and significant improvement in quality of life and health behaviors.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In societies with a spiritual and religious context, healthy lifestyle interventions with a religious approach can be more helpful because the interventions are socially and culturally consistent with them.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/ijpvm.ijpvm_93_24","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,22]],"date-time":"2026-05-22T12:00:43Z","timestamp":1779451243000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Effectiveness of a Spiritual Intervention on Weight Loss, Quality of Life, and Health Behaviors in Overweight Iranian Women"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Seyedeh Asma","family":"Hosseini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Harold G.","family":"Koenig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA"},{"name":"Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA"},{"name":"Adjunct Professor, Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aboozar","family":"Poormohammadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"R1-20260522","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"714","DOI":"10.1093\/ajcn\/81.3.714","article-title":"Overweight exceeds underweight among women in most developing countries","volume":"81","author":"Mendez","year":"2005","journal-title":"Am J Clin Nutr"},{"key":"R3-20260522","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"185","DOI":"10.3329\/bjms.v17i2.35869","article-title":"How religosity and\/or spirituality might influence self care in diabetes management:A structured review","volume":"17","author":"Permana","year":"2018","journal-title":"Bangladesh J Med Sci"},{"key":"R4-20260522","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"918","DOI":"10.1097\/NMD.0000000000001243","article-title":"Exploring the impact of religion and spirituality on mental health and coping in a group of Canadian psychiatric outpatients","volume":"208","author":"Adams","year":"2020","journal-title":"J Nerv Ment Dis"},{"key":"R5-20260522","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"586","DOI":"10.1177\/0890117118813333","article-title":"Eat, pray, move:A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial of a multilevel church-based intervention to address obesity among African Americans and Latinos","volume":"33","author":"Derose","year":"2019","journal-title":"Am J Health Promot"}],"container-title":["International Journal of Preventive Medicine"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ovid.com\/10.4103\/ijpvm.ijpvm_93_24","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,14]],"date-time":"2026-08-14T19:29:18Z","timestamp":1786735758000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ovid.com\/10.4103\/ijpvm.ijpvm_93_24"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,4]]},"references-count":4,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4103\/ijpvm.ijpvm_93_24","relation":{},"ISSN":["2008-7802","2008-8213"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2008-7802","type":"print"},{"value":"2008-8213","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,4]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2024-03-30","name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2024-07-31","name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}