Nine-Month Interdisciplinary Physical Rehabilitation in Female University Students with Class I Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Descriptive Report of Pre-Post Findings

Obesity in young women is associated with cardiometabolic, functional, and psychosocial limitations. This descriptive report summarizes verified pre-post findings from an underlying nine-month interdisciplinary physical rehabilitation study in 42 female university students aged 21-22 years with class I obesity at Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine. Twenty-four participants had been clinically classified with abdominal obesity and 18 with gluteofemoral obesity. The program combined structured exercise, daily walking, dietary behavior modification, motivational and psychological support, health education, and self-monitoring. At baseline, the abdominal group had a higher atherogenic coefficient (3.30 ± 0.35 vs. 2.56 ± 1.54) and Ruffier index (13.75 ± 1.93 vs. 11.59 ± 2.31), both documented as p < .05 in the original analysis. During the program, documented changes included a 7.42 cm reduction in waist circumference in the abdominal group, a 3.72 cm reduction in hip circumference in the gluteofemoral group, and fat-mass reductions of 2.52 kg and 2.14 kg, respectively. Mean self-esteem increased by approximately 12.5% in both groups, and SF-36 physical and mental component scores increased. The available study documentation did not include the individual-level raw dataset, complete adherence records, or full inferential outputs for reanalysis. Because the underlying study had no non-intervention control group, the findings are presented as descriptive within-sample changes and do not establish causal effectiveness. Keywords:cardiometabolic risk; descriptive report; female university students; obesity phenotype; physical rehabilitation; quality of life.