Behavioral Weight Loss as a Treatment for Migraine in Obese Women
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Brief summary
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This study involves a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of behavioral weight loss as a treatment for migraine in obese females aged 18 to 50 years. The primary aim is to examine whether participants assigned to a behavioral weight loss treatment condition report greater pre- to post-treatment reductions in migraine headache frequency than participants assigned to a migraine education condition.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01197196
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 112 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Behavioral
- Migraine Education Other
Behavioral · Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 50 Years
- Sex
- Female
- 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, 2012
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2017
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2017
- Last update posted
- Aug 30, 2021
2012 – 2017
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Miriam Hospital Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center | Providence | Rhode Island | 02903 | — |
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- Last update posted Aug 30, 2021 · Synced Sep 1, 2026
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