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Preventing Overweight in USAF Personnel: Minimal Contact Program

NCT00417599 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2016-06-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The prevalence of overweight in the United States Air Force (USAF) is about 22%. The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of a minimal contact behavioral therapy plus usual care group(MCBT+UC) using a controlled experimental comparison of usual care(UC). Subjects are USAF personnel who are 5lbs below their Maximum Allowable Weight (MAW) and heavier. The primary hypothesis is that: MCBT+UC will have significant weight loss as compared to UC.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Lifestyle Intervention

lifestyle intervention .

OTHER

control group

waiting list control group

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Department of Defense

    collaborator FED

  • Baylor College of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John P Foreyt, Ph.D. · Baylor College of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-12-31
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2015-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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