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Motivational Interviewing to Promote Healthy Behaviours in Young Adults

NCT05264740 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 101

Last updated 2025-05-18

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Summary

The overall goals of this project are to evaluate the feasibility of web-based nurse-led motivational interviewing and educational interventions to promote healthy behaviours for obesity prevention and maintenance of healthy weight and behaviours among young adults attending university (age 18-29) in Hamilton, Ontario. A secondary goal is to evaluate if the intervention is more successful among people at higher risk of obesity (a risk stratification approach). A pilot randomized controlled trial will be conducted. Young adults will be randomized to receive a tailored behavioural intervention through motivational interviewing sessions with a nurse combined with educational materials, or control (educational materials only). Both groups will be followed for 6 months and their weight at baseline and end of the study will be measured. Outcomes related to the feasibility of the intervention and participants' experiences in the study will also be measured.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational interviewing

The intervention group will receive motivational interviewing sessions with a trained study nurse plus educational material

BEHAVIORAL

Educational materials

The control group will receive educational material only.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Canadian Cancer Society (CCS)

    collaborator OTHER

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

    collaborator OTHER

  • McMaster University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura N Anderson, PhD · McMaster University

  • Lawrence Mbuagbaw, MD, PhD · McMaster University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-02-01
Primary Completion
2024-02-01
Completion
2024-02-01

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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