title: Individualising weight loss prescription--a management tool for clinicians.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Obesity is a global epidemic and a growing cause of comorbidities seen by clinicians. Yet apart from recent guidelines developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council there are few clinical tools available to tackle this problem.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article describes a tool for detecting aspects of both diet and lifestyle likely to adversely affect the body weight of an individual.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Diet, Activity and Behaviour Questionnaire (DAB-Q) is designed to identify the nutrition, physical activity and eating behaviours likely to lead to energy imbalance and increased body weight in an individual. This tool can be used in clinical practice to help individualise appropriate behavioural prescriptions for successful weight management.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Promotion and Research, Deakin, Newcastle and Southern Cross Universities, New South Wales. eggergj@ozemail.com.au
authors.forename: Garry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Egger
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.forename: Sebely
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pal
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D009752:Nutritional Status; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D015431:Weight Loss