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MOVE!+UP: Testing a Tailored Weight Management Program for Veterans With PTSD

NCT04563741 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 174

Last updated 2026-05-06

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Summary

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is common among Veterans and results in poor psychological functioning, quality of life, and physical health. This includes having disproportionately high rates of obesity, in part due to PTSD symptoms interfering with physical activity and healthy diet. Unfortunately, Veterans with PTSD have poorer weight loss outcomes than those without PTSD in VA's existing weight management program, MOVE!. Based on pilot work, it appears that a weight management program that augments standard PTSD care and targets PTSD-related barriers to weight loss improves weight and PTSD symptoms. Whether it improves these issues more than standard VA care is in need of study, which is the focus of the proposed research. The proposed study also seeks to understand factors that would interfere with and facilitate implementing the program in VA if it is effective. This Veteran-centered, tailored weight loss program may efficiently benefit both physical and mental health of Veterans with PTSD, addressing standard care limitations.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

MOVE!+UP

behavioral weight management intervention developed for Veterans with PTSD

BEHAVIORAL

MOVE!

standard VA weight management intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine D Hoerster, PhD MPH BA · VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-01
Primary Completion
2025-03-26
Completion
2025-03-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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