Fariba Hosseini - Department of Counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Isfahan, Iran.
Yousef Gorgi - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Isfahan, Iran.
Afsaneh Javadzadeh - Department of Counseling and Guidance, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Khomeini Shahr Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

Background: Group teaching can create empathy in teaching sessions. Therefore the objective of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of team teaching based on Buckroyd’s Method on lifestyle, self-efficacy and body image structure of the women with obesity in the city of Isfahan. Methods: This study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group and follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all people with obesity referring to clinics in the city of Isfahan from whom ۳۰ women with obesity were selected through purposive sampling from Sepahan Health clinic in ۲۰۱۴ and then they were put into two groups of fifteen (experimental and control). A therapeutic intervention based on Buckroyd Method was administered on the experimental group during ۱۶ two-hour sessions twice a week. The measurement instruments in this study were BMI scale, demographic information form, life style self-efficacy questionnaire and body image questionnaire. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (repeated measures variance) were used to test the hypotheses using SPSS software (version ۲۳) at ۰.۰۵ level of error. Results: The results showed that team teaching based on Buckroyd Method has been effective on the increase of life style self-efficacy (p < ۰.۰۰۱) and the improvement of body image (p < ۰.۰۰۱) as the mean score of life style self-efficacy and body image structure have increased after team teaching at the post-test stage and it could maintain this increase in time (follow-up stage). Conclusion: Buckroyd Method can be employed in the increase of life style self-efficacy and body image structure in the obese women.

Buckroyd Method, Self-Efficacy, life Style, Body Image, Obesity