The Church as a Bridge to Deliver Health Resources Via Telehealth

University of Southern Mississippi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diet, Food, and Nutrition; Church; Mobile Health; Obesity; Community-based Participatory Research; Health Behavior; Primary Health Care; Minority Health; Healthcare Disparities; Telehealth; Weight Loss Programs

Treatments: Behavioral: Church Bridge Project

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02773069

1R15MD010213-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed Church Bridge intervention project will provide an innovative, evidence-based and technology supported, health intervention model for Southern, African American, and rural populations who continue to be disparately burdened by obesity and associated co-morbidities (i.e., hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease). By targeting young adults (21-50 years of age) with families, the project will contribute to the long-term reduction of preventable chronic disease and related health care costs for the public.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI >/=30
• Must have elementary aged child (5-11 years) in household

Exclusion criteria

• Any health condition where weight loss is contraindicated
• Complicated disease states (ie., advanced renal disease or heart failure)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 1 patient group

Weight loss program

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will attend a 12 session weight loss program accompanied by maintenance support delivered by a church. Program will include peer education, telenutrition counseling and mobile health feedback.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Church Bridge Project