Status:
COMPLETED
Project Activate: Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Behavioral Treatment for Weight Loss
Lead Sponsor:
Drexel University
Conditions:
Obesity
Weight Loss
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Mindfulness and Acceptance based Behavioral Therapies (MABTs) are among the most promising behavioral approaches for obesity, with two recent large trials showing that they achieve better initial weig...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Individuals must be of overweight or obese BMI (27-50 kg/m2)
- Individuals must be adults (aged 18-70)
- Completion of a 3-day food diary
- Completion of baseline assessment tasks
- Willingness to lose weight, be physically active, and participate in-group sessions.
- Participants must also provide consent for the research team to contact their personal physician if necessary to provide clearance or to consult about rapid weight gain.
Exclusion
- Inability to engage in physical activity (defined as walking a city block without stopping)
- Medical or psychiatric condition that may pose a risk to the participant during intervention, cause a change in weight, or limit ability to comply with the program
- Recently began or changed the dose of a medication that can cause significant change in weight
- History of bariatric surgery; weight loss of \> 5% in the previous 3 months
- Currently pregnant or breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant
- Planning to, or participating in, another weight loss treatment in the next 3 years.
- Engaging in compensatory vomiting, other severe compensatory behaviors, or more than 12 of any compensatory behavior in the previous 3 months
- Experiencing significant loss of control eating (9 or more binge episodes in the previous 3 months)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 15 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
November 7 2024
Estimated Enrollment :
285 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04337619
Start Date
August 15 2019
End Date
November 7 2024
Last Update
May 11 2025
Active Locations (1)
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Drexel University Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104