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Comadres Weight Loss Pilot Program

NCT00719927 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2009-02-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Latinas are more likely to be obese and physically inactive than white women. Therefore, a behavioral weight loss program for Latinas will be tested in this pilot study. Thirty overweight or obese Latinas will be recruited for a 12 week weight loss program at the Weight Control \& Diabetes Research Center. Participants will be provided with nutrition and physical activity education and be taught behavioral skills to help them adopt lifestyle changes that produce weight loss. Participants will be placed on a reduced calorie diet and instructed to gradually increase their level of physical activity. To encourage participants to monitor their daily eating and exercise activities, participants will be instructed to record these activities in food and exercise diaries and submit them each week. Two treatment groups will be tested. The first group will have participants attend sessions with a female friend (comadre). The second group will have participants attend sessions without a comadre. The aims of this study are to determine whether we can succeed in recruiting Latinas with their comadres and whether we can reduce participant drop-out by having Latinas participate with their comadres in a behavioral weight loss program.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Comadres Weight Loss Pilot Program

The first condition will consist of women participating with a female friend (comadre), while the second condition will consist of women participating without a support partner.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Miriam Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rena Wing, PhD · The Miriam Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-06-30
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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