Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program
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Official title
Modeling Effective Obesity Treatment to Reduce Disparities Through Primary Care
Brief summary
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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 conducting research with men and women recruited from primary care medical practices. The study has a particular focus on African Americans and Latino. The design is randomized trial of the effectiveness of two versions of a lifestyle weight loss program called delivered by primary care providers (PCP) and ancillary staff at 5 clinical practice sites to their own patients. The two versions of the lifestyle weight loss program are called Basic (minimal counseling provided by PCP every four months) and Basic Plus (same PCP counseling plus additional counseling by specially trained ancillary practice staff acting as Lifestyle Coaches (LC), monthly for the first 12 months and then every other month for up to 2 years).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00959608
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 261 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 70 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- May 31, 2006
- Primary completion
- Apr 30, 2007
- Completion
- Apr 30, 2007
- Last update posted
- Aug 16, 2016
2006 – 2007
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 5
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn Family Care at St. Leonard's Court | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| PennCare- Edward S. Cooper Practice of General Internal Medicine | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| Greenhouse Internists | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19119 | — |
| Einstein Community Health Associates | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19120 | — |
| Northeast Family Medicine | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19120 | — |
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