Hunt, KateWyke, SallyGray, Cindy MAnderson, Annie SBrady, AdrianBunn, ChristopherDonnan, Peter TFenwick, ElisabethGrieve, EleanorLeishman, JimMiller, EuanMutrie, NanetteRauchhaus, PetraWhite, AlanTreweek, Shaun2014-07-182014-07-182014-04-05Hunt, K, Wyke, S, Gray, C M, Anderson, A S, Brady, A, Bunn, C, Donnan, P T, Fenwick, E, Grieve, E, Leishman, J, Miller, E, Mutrie, N, Rauchhaus, P, White, A & Treweek, S 2014, 'A gender-sensitised weight loss and healthy living programme for overweight and obese men delivered by Scottish Premier League football clubs (FFIT) : a pragmatic randomised controlled trial', The Lancet, vol. 383, no. 9924, pp. 1211-1221. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62420-40140-6736ORCID: /0000-0002-7239-7241/work/186968369http://hdl.handle.net/2164/3334We thank: the FFIT participants who took part in the research; the club coaches in the Scottish Premiere League (SPL) clubs (Aberdeen FC, Celtic FC, Dundee United FC, Dunfermline Athletic FC, Hamilton Academical FC, Heart of Midlothian FC, Hibernian FC, Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC, Kilmarnock FC, Motherwell FC, Rangers FC, St Johnstone FC, and St Mirren FC) who delivered the FFIT programme; and members of the survey office, fieldwork team leaders, and fieldworkers at Medical Research Council/Chief Scientist Office Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow University, in particular Catherine Ferrell, Elaine Hindle, Alice Maclean, Alan Pollock, Mark Robinson, Susan Smillie, David Walker, and Karen Wood. We would particularly like to acknowledge present and former colleagues at the SPL Trust, now the SFPL Trust (Billy Singh, Mark Dunlop, and Stuart MacPhee) for their support in the development, delivery, and assessment of Football Fans in Training (FFIT); the UKCRN registered Tayside Clinical Trials Unit for support for data management; the Scottish Executive Health Department Chief Scientist Office for funding the feasibility pilot that preceded this randomised controlled trial (CZG/2/504); the Medical Research Council who funded KH and additional developmental research through the MRC/CSO SPHSU Gender and Health programme (5TK50/25605200-68094), and Sally Macintyre and Laurence Moore for comments on an earlier draft of the paper. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NIHR PHR Programme, the Department of Health, nor any of the other funders named above.11270711engSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingAdultAgedBody Mass IndexCost-Benefit AnalysisExercise TherapyHealth PromotionHealthy People ProgramsHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityOverweightRisk Reduction BehaviorScotlandSoccerTreatment OutcomeWeight LossR MedicineChief Scientist Office (CSO)CZG/2/504Medical Research Council (MRC)5TK50/25605200-68094RJournal article10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62420-43839924