Complete list of published work in Dr. McVay's bibliography is located here. [Click Here]
Selected Publications
Ross KM, Arroyo KM, McVay MA. Information seeking by participants enrolled in randomized clinical trials of beahvioral interventions. 2025. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications.
McVay MA, Moore WS, Deceus D, Townsend SB, Rosenberg EI, Muenyi S, Lou X, Webb FJ, Diaz LD, Shankar MN, Ruiz J, Voils CI, Ross KM. A brief online tool to increase behavioral weight loss treatment initiation: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial. 2025. Contemporary Clinical Trials.
Scotti KB, Lavoie HA, Bryson H, McVay MA. Understanding the social undermining of dietary and physical activity behaviors: A systematic scoping review. Health Psychology. 2024 Dec 30.
McVay MA, Moore WS, Wilkins FL, Jackson JR, Robinson MD. (2024). Patient perspectives on incretin-based weight loss medications and relationship with demographic factors. Obesity Science & Practice.
McVay MA, Carrera Seoane M, Rajoria M, Dye M, Marshall N, Muenyi S, Alkanderi A, Scotti KB, Ruiz J, Voils CI, Ross KM. (2024) A low-burden, self-weighing intervention to prevent weight gain in adults with obesity who do not enroll in comprehensive treatment. Obesity Science & Practice;10(2):e745. doi: 10.1002/osp4.745. PMID: 38510333; PMCID: PMC10951869.
McVay MA*, Lavoie HA, Rajoria M, Leong MC, Lou X, McMahon L, Patnode CD, Pagoto SL, Jake-Schoffman DE*. (2023). Pre-enrollment steps and run-ins in weight loss trials: a meta-regression. American Journal of Preventive Medicine ;64(6):910-917. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2023.01.034. PMID: 36822955. *Co-senior authors
McVay MA, Donahue ML, Cheong J, Bacon J, Perri MG, Ross KM (2020). Effects of intervention characteristics on willingness to initiate a weight-gain prevention program. American Journal of Health Promotion. In press.
McVay MA, Yancy WS, Bennett GG, Levine E, Jung SH, Jung S, Anton S, Voils CI. (2019). A web-based intervention to increase weight loss treatment initiation: Results of a cluster randomized feasibility and acceptability trial. Translational Behavioral Medicine.
McVay MA, Yancy WS, Bennett GG, Jung S, Voils, CI. (2018). Perceived barriers and facilitators of initiation of behavioral weight loss interventions among adults with obesity: A qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 18: 854.
Voils CI, Levine E, Gierisch JM, Pendergast J, Hale SL, McVay MA, Reed SD, Yancy WS, Bennett G, Strawbridge EM, White AC. (2018). Study protocol for Log2Lose: A feasibility randomized controlled trial to evaluate financial incentives for dietary self-monitoring and interim weight loss in adults with obesity. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 65:116-122.
Voils CI, Olsen MK, Gierisch JM, McVay MA, Grubber JM, Gaillard L, Bolton J, Maciejewski ML, Strawbridge E & Yancy WS. (2017). Maintenance of weight loss after initiation of nutrition training: A randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 166(7), 463-471.
McVay MA., Yancy WS, Scott CN, Wilson-Barlow L, Woolson S, McSherry WC, Allen S, & Voils CI (2017). Patient factors associated with initiation of behavioral weight loss treatment: A prospective observational study in an integrated care setting. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 7(1), 75-83.
McVay MA, Steinberg DM, Askew S, Kaphingst KA, Bennett GG. (2016). Genetic causal attributions for weight status and weight loss during a behavioral weight gain prevention intervention. Genetics in Medicine, 18, 476–482.
McVay MA, Voils CI, Geiselman PJ, Smith VA, Coffman CJ, Mayer S, & Yancy WS. (2016). Food preferences and weight change during low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets. Appetite, 103, 336-343.
McVay MA, Beadles C, Wu R, Grubber J, Coffman C J, Yancy W S, & Voils C I (2015). Effects of provision of type 2 diabetes genetic risk feedback on patient perceptions of diabetes control and diet and physical activity self-efficacy. Patient Education and Counseling, 98(12), 1600-1607.
McVay MA, King HA, Jeffreys AS, Coffman CJ & Voils CI (2015). Mediators of patient health behavior change in a randomized controlled trial of a spouse-assisted intervention. Psychology, Health & Medicine 20(7), 753-66.
Yancy WS, Mayer SB, Coffman CJ, Smith VA, Kolotkin RL, Geiselman PJ, McVay MA, Oddone EZ, & Voils CI. (2015). Effect of allowing choice of diet on weight loss: A randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 162, 805-814.
McVay MA, Jeffreys AS, King HA, Olsen MK, Voils CI & Yancy WS (2014). The relationship between pre-treatment dietary composition and weight loss during a randomized trial of different diet approaches. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 28(S2), 16-23.
McVay MA, Yancy WS, Vijan S, Van Scoyoc L, Neelon B, Voils CI & Maciejewski ML. (2014). Obesity-related health status changes and weight loss treatment utilization. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 46(5), 465-472.
McVay MA, Voils, CI, Coffman, CJ, Geiselman, PJ, Kolotkin, RL, Mayer, SB, Smith, VA, Gaillard, L, Turner, MJ, & Yancy, WS (2014). Factors associated with choice of a low-fat or low-carbohydrate diet during a behavioral weight loss intervention. Appetite, 83, 117-124.