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Behavioral Intervention

Standard Behavioral WLM for Obesity

N/A
Waitlist Available
Led By Carolyn Tucker, PhD
Research Sponsored by University of Florida
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 18 months
Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test the effectiveness of a culturally sensitive, evidence-based, multi-component, behavioral program for treating obesity called Health-Smart. The program will be implemented by Community Health Workers at the primary care centers and followed by either of two physician-implemented behavioral counseling programs to prevent weight gain.

Eligible Conditions
  • Obesity

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~18 months
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 18 months for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
weight loss
weight loss maintenance

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Active Control
Group I: Standard Behavioral WLMActive Control1 Intervention
This program is designed to enable physicians to: (a) implement motivational interviewing approaches when talking with their patients about their weight loss goals and behavioral strategies to achieve these goals, (b) become knowledgeable about empirically supported behavioral change principles that have been used to help patients maintain weight loss in previous interventions, (c) communicate how to use these empirically supported behavioral change principles to have patients initiate or maintain their self-selected health-smart goals related to weight loss and/or weight loss maintenance, and (d) use motivational interviewing approaches to communicate empathy and understanding with patients who are struggling to maintain their weight loss and/or accomplish a behavioral goal.
Group II: Patient Centered Culturally Sensitive WLMActive Control1 Intervention
This program is designed to enable physicians to: (a) talk with their patients about their weight, weight loss goals, goal barriers, strategies for overcoming these barriers, and deliver this talk in patient-centered, culturally sensitive ways, (b) assist their patients with engaging in self-identified strategies for achieving and sustaining their self selected goals for weight loss and overall health, (c) be knowledgeable about health-smart behaviors, (d) use behaviors and display attitudes in physician-patient interactions with patients that are provider cultural sensitivity indicators in published literature, and (e) say and display behaviors and attitudes that patients identified as important when discussing obesity and losing weight.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of FloridaLead Sponsor
1,340 Previous Clinical Trials
715,022 Total Patients Enrolled
36 Trials studying Obesity
26,280 Patients Enrolled for Obesity
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research InstituteOTHER
550 Previous Clinical Trials
29,996,265 Total Patients Enrolled
17 Trials studying Obesity
3,383,984 Patients Enrolled for Obesity
Carolyn Tucker, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorUniversity of Florida

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Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Health-Smart for Weight Loss at UF Jax Clinics
2018. "Health-Smart for Weight Loss at UF Jax Clinics". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03418701.
~98 spots leftby Apr 2025
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