Behavioral CVD Prevention Using Informatics

Boston Medical Center (BMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: Counseling; Behavioral: feedback report

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02752464

14SDG20050015 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

H-34964

Details and patient eligibility

About

Overweight/obesity is strongly linked to mortality from multiple chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity-related cancers.The successful management of overweight/obesity requires management of nutrition and physical activity over time. For racial/ethnic minority and low-income populations, who face both higher prevalence of obesity and chronic diseases compared to others, interventions promoting behavioral change are a national health priority. From the available range of behavioral change intervention strategies, there is a growing knowledge base that documents the efficacy of peer support interventions for improving self-care, quality of life, and behavioral change. In this study, the investigators will examine the following research question: What is the preliminary efficacy and degree of implementation and acceptability of an intervention approach in which peer counselors provide evidenced-based counseling about nutrition and physical activity behaviors for weight management to public housing residents using a computer-assisted program called CuesWeight?

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Willing to wear an accelerometer
• 18-65 years old
• Public housing resident with no plans to move in next 6 months
• Body mass index ≥25
• Open to making changes to diet & physical activity habits

Exclusion criteria

• Currently enrolled in a comprehensive weight loss program or a research study whose primary outcome is weight loss
• Primary language spoken is a language other than Spanish or English
• Not willing to participate in study protocols, including wearing the accelerometer, not willing to have study staff send text messages

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

Feedback report plus peer counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Feedback report plus peer counseling Participants receive 12 sessions of behavioral counseling and a brief printed feedback report

Treatment:

Behavioral: feedback report

Behavioral: Counseling

Feedback report

Active Comparator group

Description:

Feedback report Participants receive a brief printed feedback report

Treatment:

Behavioral: feedback report