Using the Hunt Motivational Scale to Aid in Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance

Penn Medicine Princeton Health

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Weight Loss

Treatments: Other: Hunt Motivational Scale

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03530553

BN 2337

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, we plan to determine the efficacy of the Hunt Motivational Scale as a tool for weight loss compared to standard of care in the Penn Medicine Princeton Health weight management program.

Full description

Obesity is rising at alarming rates, currently at nearly 40%. There are very few tools, specifically questionnaires, for healthcare providers to help their patients lose weight or maintain their weight loss. The Hunt Motivational Scale is one such tool to help patients identify areas that need improvement in order to aid in weight loss and weight maintenance. The HMS is designed to motivate patients to track, plan, and practice other healthy weight loss and weight maintenance practices so that they will have success.

In this study, approximately 75 subjects in the Penn Medicine Princeton Health weight management program will be randomly assigned to either receive the HMS or not (standard of care). They will be followed for a period of six months at the end of which it will be determined whether the group that received the HMS lost more weight than the control group.

Enrollment: 75 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient in weight management program at Penn Medicine Princeton Health

Exclusion criteria

• does not have a visit every three to four weeks
• not in active weight loss phase of the program
• diminished intellectual capacity to complete questionnaire i.e. Down's syndrome

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment arm

Experimental group

Description:

The treatment arm will receive the HMS as well as standard of care of the weight management program.

Treatment:

Other: Hunt Motivational Scale

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

The control arm will not receive the HMS and will receive standard of care.