Financial Coaching and Lifestyle Intervention for Diabetes Prevention in Low-income Families

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Loss

Treatments: Behavioral: Noom; Behavioral: Brighter Bites; Behavioral: Financial coaching using TrustPlus

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05944549

HSC-SPH-23-0002

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effect on weight and metabolic outcomes of an enhanced intervention, comprised of evidence-based financial coaching plus a lifestyle intervention vs. the lifestyle intervention alone

Enrollment: 58 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English speaking parents
• BMI>25.0 at baseline
• must have a child participant in the Brighter Bites program at study enrollment
• own a smartphone (Android 6 and iPhone 12.4 or later)
• must able to participate in study activities

Exclusion criteria

• medications known to affect appetite or body composition (e.g., corticosteroids, antidepressants, beta blockers, sulfonylureas, insulin)
• currently diagnosed with conditions known to affect body composition or fat distribution (e.g., Cushing's syndrome, hypothyroidism)
• diagnosis of an eating disorder
• currently pregnant.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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58 participants in 2 patient groups

Enhanced Intervention group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial coaching using TrustPlus

Behavioral: Brighter Bites

Behavioral: Noom

lifestyle-intervention group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brighter Bites

Behavioral: Noom