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Promoting Healthy Weight With 'Stability Skills First'

NCT00626457 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 267

Last updated 2015-07-01

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Summary

Losing weight has many health benefits for women such as reducing the risk of heart attacks, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer. However, women often struggle with maintaining the weight they have lost. This may be because they need to learn skills for maintaining weight, not just losing weight.

When is the optimal time is to learn these maintenance skills? It may be better to lose weight first and then learn maintenance skills since people may feel good about the weight they have lost and be motivated to maintain. Alternatively, it may be better to learn maintenance skills first and then lose weight since they may experience how easy it is to use these maintenance skills and become confident they can maintain a weight loss in the future.

Therefore, this study will examine whether learning these maintenance skills--before or after losing weight--helps women succeed at maintaining weight loss.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral weight-loss/lifestyle interventions

6-month intervention (28 weekly classes)

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Michaela Kiernan · Stanford University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-02-29
Primary Completion
2011-05-31
Completion
2011-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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