Small Changes a One Year Protocol for Weight Management

Small Changes

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Group motivational interviewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02453854

smallchanges2011

Details and patient eligibility

About

A trial comparing Treatment as usual with Motivational Interviewing focussed treatment in the 'Small Changes' programme.

Full description

A quasi-experimental design. With one arm focussed on 'treatment as usual' and the other on Motivational Interviewing. Subjects were not randomly assigned but treated as two separate cohorts one Running October 2011-October 2012 using the Treatment as usual and a separate cohort running from October 2012 to October -2013 using motivational interviewing as the approach for treatment.

Enrollment: 155 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Body Mass index equal to or greater than 30 kgm2

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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155 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment as Usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

A Treatment as Usual (TAU) group received a psycho-educational programme for weight management over one year

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group motivational interviewing

Group Motivational Intervieiwng

Experimental group

Description:

A Motivational interviewing group received one year of programme using motivational interviewing as the approach for treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Group motivational interviewing