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A Behavioral Intervention for Reducing Obesity

NCT00892788 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 56

Last updated 2019-04-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will examine a contingency management (CM) intervention designed to provide incentives for losing weight versus participating in a manual-guided behavioral weight loss intervention alone. Participants in the CM condition will earn the opportunity to win prizes by losing weight and completing activities that contribute to weight loss, such as keeping daily food and physical activity diaries, choosing healthy foods, exercising, and using other weight loss strategies. The investigators will determine if the CM improves weight loss relative to the usual care manual-guided intervention alone.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

contingency management

Prize-based contingency management for weight loss

BEHAVIORAL

weight loss manual-guided individual therapy sessions

once weekly counseling sessions with research staff

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UCHC/Storrs and Regional Campus Incentive Grants

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • UConn Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Nancy M Petry, Ph.D. · UConn Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-04-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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