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The Impact of an Investment Based Intervention on Weight-loss and Beliefs About Food in Patients Post Bariatric Surgery

NCT02045628 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 212

Last updated 2016-03-02

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Summary

Although obesity surgery is currently the most effective method for achieving weight loss, not all patients lose the desired amount of weight and some show weight regain. Previous pilot work by the lead researcher shows that successful weight loss is associated with the amount of investment the patient feels that they have made in their operation. For example, those who feel that it has taken more time and effort to organise, has cost more money, has been more disruptive to their family, social and work lives and has caused pain are more likely to lose weight after their operation. Therefore, it seems as if the greater the sense of investment, the greater the motivation to make the operation a success. The present study aims to build on these findings by encouraging weight loss surgery patients to focus on the investment they have made, thus making their investment more salient to them. Using a trial design, half the patients will be asked to rate and describe the investment they have made in their operation just before surgery (focusing on the time and effort to organise the surgery etc) and 3 months after surgery (focusing on time off work for recovery, disruption of family and friends, pain of surgery, pain of having the stitches removed etc). All patients will record their weight, beliefs about food, intentions to change their behaviour and actual eating and exercise behaviour at baseline then 3, 6 and 12 months follow up. The impact of the investment based intervention will then be assessed to explore whether focusing on the investment involved in having surgery improves patient health outcomes by one year.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Investment intervention

Those in the investment group will complete carefully framed questions designed to raise the salience of the investment they have made in their procedure at baseline and 3 months follow up. The content of this intervention will be tailored to the recent experiences of the patient (ie pre or post surgery).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University College London Hospitals

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Surrey

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jane Ogden, PhD · University of Surrey

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-11-30
Primary Completion
2016-03-31
Completion
2016-03-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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