Status:
COMPLETED
Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program
Lead Sponsor:
University of Pennsylvania
Conditions:
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program, or "¡Vive Saludable! Un programa personalizado de control de peso" aims to improve the treatment of obesity in adults in the general population, by ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Women and men
- Ages 18 to 70 years
- Body mass index \> 25 kg/m2 but \< 55 kg/m2 or who weigh \<400 pounds.
Exclusion
- Pregnancy or lactation, since contraindicated for weight loss or affecting weight status
- Weight loss \> 10 pounds in the previous 3 months
- Current use of weight loss medications
- Use of medications known to result in significant weight gain (e.g., oral steroids or second generation anti-psychotics)
- Psychiatric disorders including untreated major depression, psychosis, bulimia nervosa, and substance abuse
- Active chemo- or radiation therapy
- Unstable renal, hepatic, or cardiovascular disease, including malignant arrhythmias
- Recent (past 3 months) history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or congestive heart failure
- Participants age \< 18 will be excluded because we are only using adult practices and a different type of program would be needed for patients \< 18, and age \> 70 years will be excluded because our experience has been that a specially tailored program would be needed. As a design consideration, we wanted to decrease the heterogeneity of the program.
- Participants with a BMI \> 55 kg/m2 will be excluded because they are likely to require more extensive medical and behavioral care than can be provided in this study.
- More than 1 participant residing in the same household will be excluded to avoid contamination across the treatment conditions.
- Final exclusion criteria will be determined in collaboration with participating primary care providers
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2007
Estimated Enrollment :
261 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00959608
Start Date
June 1 2006
End Date
May 1 2007
Last Update
August 17 2016
Active Locations (5)
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1
Penn Family Care at St. Leonard's Court
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
2
PennCare- Edward S. Cooper Practice of General Internal Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
3
Greenhouse Internists
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19119
4
Einstein Community Health Associates
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19120