CSOWM Study Guide Modules 1-6
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Self-monitoring is important for adherence because:
🗸🗸: it allows the client to track information
increases aware of dietary intake, PA, and body weight
allows tracking of progress towards achieving goals
Ideally, frequency of self-weighing should be:
🗸🗸: At least once a week but not more than once a day
The health care provider should monitor the client's weight loss, thus ideally during obesity
treatment, weight is measured by the health care provider:
🗸🗸: at every visit
During obesity treatment, the health care provider monitors the following:
🗸🗸: weight
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diet and physical activity records
other behaviors or health parameters
Common causes of lapses include:
🗸🗸: eating away from home
celebrations and parties
A patient asks you to help her decide on which bariatric procedure to have; she is 42 years old with a
BMI of 42 and her obesity related conditions include type 2 diabetes, hypertension and fatty liver
disease. What do you tell her?
🗸🗸: The current literature does not provide enough information to predict which procedure she
would have better outcomes with.
A patient's surgeon wants her to lose weight before surgery. The patient's surgery is scheduled in
one month; why does the surgeon want her to lose weight prior to the procedure?
🗸🗸: To reduce the volume of her liver.
A patient is 2 months post-bariatric surgery and calls you complaining of vomiting and dizziness, for
the past 2 days; you tell the patient:
🗸🗸: To go to the ER to assess if she is dehydrated and needs IV hydration.