Weight Management Counseling in Medical Schools
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Official title
Weight Management Counseling in Medical Schools: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief summary
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Eight U.S. medical schools will be participating in the study: Weight Management Counseling in Medical Schools, also known as MSWEIGHT. This is a five-year randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to compare the efficacy of two approaches to learning weight management counseling: 1)traditional education (TE) and; 2) multi-modal educational intervention (MME). The study aims are to refine and compare the efficacy of MME to TE on observed student weight management counseling skills measured through the primary outcome, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02725905
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 3,199 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Multi-Modal Education (MME) Behavioral
- Traditional Education (TE) Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Dec 1, 2015 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2020 (Actual)
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2022 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- May 17, 2023
2015 – 2022
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 8
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 8
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alabama-Birmingham | Birmingham | Alabama | 35294 | — |
| Georgetown University School of Medicine | Washington D.C. | District of Columbia | 20007 | — |
| University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine | Iowa City | Iowa | 52242 | — |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine | Louisville | Kentucky | 40202 | — |
| Creighton University School of Medicine | Omaha | Nebraska | 68178 | — |
| Oregon Health and Science University | Portland | Oregon | 97239 | — |
| University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| Brown University | Providence | Rhode Island | 02912 | — |
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted May 17, 2023 · Synced Oct 22, 2026
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