Study to Promote Weight Loss in Primary Care Practices

State University of New York - Upstate Medical University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Obesity

Treatments

Behavioral: Group telephone intervention

Behavioral: Individual telephone intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00749606

R18DK078553 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if primary care based, telephone-delivered weight loss interventions are effective.

Full description

Obesity is related to the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes. Cost-effective interventions leading to sustained weight loss are needed to improve the public health and reverse the alarming rise in diabetes, its cardiovascular complications and other obesity-related illnesses. The Diabetes Prevention Program is identified as a model for a successful weight loss intervention. The proposed study is a randomized controlled trial of 2 active telephone-based interventions based on the Diabetes Prevention Model that will be delivered at primary care sites.

Enrollment

257 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Obese
Metabolic syndrome
Read and write English
Planning to stay in treatment with their PCP for the next 3 years
On stable doses of medications for chronic diseases such as hypothyroidism for 3 years

Exclusion criteria

Unstable health
Diabetes mellitus
Severe medical comorbidities that might interfere with their ability to participate in intervention such as severe psychiatric disease or significant heart disease.