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Keep It Off: A Weight Loss Maintenance Study

NCT00702455 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 419

Last updated 2012-11-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this project is to test whether a phone and mail-based program designed to help people who have recently lost weight helps them keep the weight off over a 2 year period.

Conditions

  • Weight Loss Maintenance

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-Directed (weight loss maintenance)

Self- Directed participants will receive a core set of print materials describing key behaviors and skills necessary for successful weight loss maintenance and will review these materials with an intervention coach in two sessions.

BEHAVIORAL

Guided (weight loss maintenance)

Guided participants will receive 8 monthly check in calls and then bimonthly calls for the rest of the study. Guided participants are also asked to report their weight weekly, either via the Keep It Off website, email or voicemail. Those who experience weight gain will receive outreach calls to assist them in reversing their weight gain.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • HealthPartners Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nancy E. Sherwood, PhD · HealthPartners Institute

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-30
Primary Completion
2010-02-28
Completion
2012-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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