Wellness Achieved Through Changing Habits (The WATCH Study)

University of Florida

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Loss; Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: ABT Weight Loss Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03284788

K01HL141535 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

IRB201701609-N

PA-16-190 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this pilot, feasibility study is to investigate the acceptability of an acceptance-based therapy healthy lifestyle intervention in adolescent girls with overweight/obesity.

Full description

Participants will attend 2 baseline clinic visits and adolescents will participate in an ABT healthy lifestyle intervention.

The intervention will include 15 sessions over 6 months.

A post-treatment visit will occur.

Enrollment: 17 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 14 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescent girls between ages 14-19 with overweight or obesity above the 85th percentile for sex and age as determined by CDC growth charts

Exclusion criteria

• Known pregnancy or plans to become pregnant in the next 2 years
• Any condition prohibiting physical activity
• A diagnosis of cardiovascular disease or diabetes
• Have active cancer or cancer requiring treatment in the past 2 years
• Have active or chronic infections (e.g., HIV or TB)
• Have active kidney disease or lung disease
• An eating disorder or substance abuse disorder
• Having begun a course of or changed the dosage of any medications known to affect appetite or body composition within the previous 3 months
• Weight loss greater than or equal to 5% in the previous 6 months
• If they do not follow the study plan

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 1 patient group

ABT Weight Loss Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Adolescent girls will attend healthy lifestyle sessions that include nutritional education and physical activity education and build skills in the areas of values clarification, mindfulness, self-regulation skills, acceptance of uncomfortable states, goal-setting, problem solving, and self-monitoring.

Treatment:

Behavioral: ABT Weight Loss Intervention