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Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program

NCT00959608 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 261

Last updated 2016-08-17

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Summary

Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program, or "¡Vive Saludable! Un programa personalizado de control de peso" aims to improve the treatment of obesity in adults in the general population, by conducting research with men and women recruited from primary care medical practices. The study has a particular focus on African Americans and Latino. The design is randomized trial of the effectiveness of two versions of a lifestyle weight loss program called delivered by primary care providers (PCP) and ancillary staff at 5 clinical practice sites to their own patients. The two versions of the lifestyle weight loss program are called Basic (minimal counseling provided by PCP every four months) and Basic Plus (same PCP counseling plus additional counseling by specially trained ancillary practice staff acting as Lifestyle Coaches (LC), monthly for the first 12 months and then every other month for up to 2 years).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Think Health! program

Brief 10-15 minute counseling with Primary Care Provider for weight management, Participant binder with eating, physical activity and stress management educational materials, adapted from the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)(Knowler et al, 2002; DPP Research Group, 2002), physical activity resource guide, and telephonic health related messages (year 2).

BEHAVIORAL

Basic Plus program

15 minute counseling sessions with lifestyle coach, in addition to the Basic Think Health! program intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Shiriki K Kumanyika, PhD, MPH · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-06-30
Primary Completion
2007-05-31
Completion
2007-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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