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NCT number NCT03710746
Other study ID # HD093598-01A1
Secondary ID
Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date October 8, 2018
Est. completion date June 30, 2024

Study information

Verified date August 2023
Source Oregon Research Institute
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project seeks to improve the effectiveness of a novel dissonance-based obesity prevention program that has reduced future BMI gain and overweight/obesity onset by (a) experimentally testing whether implementing it in single- versus mixed-sex groups, which should increase dissonance-induction that contributes to weight gain prevention effects, and (b) experimentally testing whether adding food response and attention training, which theoretically reduces valuation of and attention for high-calorie foods, increases weight gain prevention effects. This randomized trial would be the first to experimentally manipulate these two factors in an effort to produce superior weight gain prevention effects. A brief effective obesity prevention program that can be easily, inexpensively, and broadly implemented to late adolescents at risk for excess weight gain, as has been the case with another dissonance-based prevention program, could markedly reduce the prevalence of obesity and associated morbidity and mortality.


Description:

Prevention is key for combating obesity, but few programs have prevented future increases in BMI and onset of overweight/obesity, particularly during late adolescence when youth often assume responsibility for dietary intake and exercise choices. One exception is a brief 6-hr dissonance-based program (Project Health) wherein participants make small lasting incremental lifestyle changes to dietary intake and exercise to reach energy balance, and discuss costs of obesity, an unhealthy diet, and sedentary behavior, and benefits of leanness, a healthy diet, and exercise, which prompts them to align their attitudes with their publicly displayed behavior. These activities promote the internalization of health goals and executive control over lifestyle behaviors. Late adolescents randomized to Project Health showed fewer increases in BMI and a 41% and 43% reduction in overweight/obesity onset over 2-yr follow-up compared to a version of the program lacking dissonance induction activities and an obesity education condition. Project Health appears to be the first program to produce these key obesity prevention effects relative to an alternative intervention, but it is critical to increase effects. A dissonance-based prevention program was more effective when implemented in single- versus mixed-sex groups, theoretically, because it promoted greater participation in dissonance-inducing discussions. Aim 1a is to test whether the weight gain prevention effects will be larger when Project Health is implemented in single-sex groups; the investigators will randomize 450 17-20-year-olds to complete Project Health in female, male, or mixed-sex groups, assessing outcomes at pretest, post-test, and 6, 12, 24, and 36-month follow-ups. Aim 1b is to test whether greater participation in dissonance-inducing discussions and group cohesion mediate the effect of condition on any superior weight gain prevention effects. Adolescents who show greater functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging( fMRI)-assessed reward and attention region responsivity to food images exhibit elevated future weight gain, implying that reducing this responsivity may reduce future weight gain. In a pilot trial, late adolescents who completed go/no-go, stop-signal, and respond-signal computer training in which they repeatedly inhibit responses to high-calorie foods and respond to low-calorie foods, and dot-probe and visual-search computer tasks that train attention away from high-calorie foods and to low-calorie foods, showed a greater reduction in reward and attention region responsivity to, palatability rating of, and willingness to pay for, high-calorie foods, suggesting reduced valuation and attentional bias, as well as greater fat loss over 1-yr follow-up versus controls who completed the training with non-food images. Aim 2a is to test whether adding food response and attention training to Project Health will produce larger weight gain prevention effects. Participants in the 3 conditions will be randomized to complete response and attention training for 25-mins after each of the 6-sessions with either food or non-food images. Aim 2b is to test whether reduced palatability ratings of, willingness to pay, and attentional bias for high-calorie foods mediate the effect of training condition on any superior weight gain prevention effects. During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) shelter-at-home order, the investigators will not measure in-person only outcomes including assessments using the BodPod (a body composition tracking system using air displacement plethysmography), and height and weight measurement for BMI calculation for all participants that have assessments due during this order. The investigators will continue to conduct intervention groups that will be administered on a virtual platform.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Active, not recruiting
Enrollment 406
Est. completion date June 30, 2024
Est. primary completion date June 3, 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 17 Years to 20 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Current at least moderate weight concerns (response of moderate, severe or extreme to the presence of weight concerns question) - BMI between 20 and 30 Exclusion Criteria: - Current diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
Project Health
A brief dissonance-based obesity prevention program delivered in six one-hour weekly sessions.
Response and Attention Training
Individualized, computerized response and attention training consisting of five separate tasks designed to increase inhibitory control to reduce overeating.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Oregon Research Institute Eugene Oregon
United States Drexel University Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Oregon Research Institute Drexel University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Body Fat Change in percentage of body fat (Not collected during COVID-19 shelter-at-home order) Baseline, 2 months, 8 months, 14 months, 26 months, and 38 months
Secondary Weight Concerns Scale from the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) Change in weight concerns. Scale scores range from 0 to 42 with higher scores being indicative of higher weight concerns. Baseline, 2 months, 8 months, 14 months, 26 months, and 38 months
Secondary Beck Depression Index (BDI) Change in depressive symptoms Baseline, 2 months, 8 months, 14 months, 26 months, and 38 months
Secondary Eating Disorder Interview (EDDI) Change in eating disorder symptoms Baseline, 2 months, 8 months, 14 months, 26 months, and 38 months
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