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Completed Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Think Health! A Personal Weight Management Program

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00959608

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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
Lead sponsor
University of Pennsylvania
Other
Enrollment
261 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Behavioral

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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