Obesity Treatment Enhanced With Working Memory Training

Weight Loss Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Obesity Treatment Enhanced With Working Memory Training

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02529397
• Other study ID #: CHRBBS: 15-647
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 18, 2015
• Last updated: October 24, 2016
• Start date: October 2015
• Est. completion date: May 2016

Study information

• Verified date: October 2016
• Source: University of Vermont
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will examine the effects of providing subjects who have attention deficits, with or without a formal diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with Working Memory computerized training and explore whether this training is a feasible way to help them better engage in a weight loss treatment program, thereby enhancing weight loss results. Half of the participants will receive five weeks of online adaptive WM training concurrently while attending an in-person 24-week behavioral weight management program and half will receive five weeks of a non-adaptive form of cognitive training concurrently while attending a 24-week behavioral weight management program in person.

Description:

Populations with ADHD or attention issues tend to have more weight loss attempts, struggle more with losing weight, and drop out of treatment more frequently than those without attention difficulties. Adaptive working memory training has been used to strengthen working memory and to mediate the symptoms associated with ADHD. The adaptive training becomes progressively more challenging as participants master each level of the training, while non-adaptive training remains at the same level throughout. Both groups will attend 24 weekly, in-person weight management classes on the University of Vermont Campus. Both groups will do cognitive training on their own home computers five days a week for 30-40 minutes for five weeks concurrently while engaged in the weight loss program.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 37
• Est. completion date: May 2016
• Est. primary completion date: May 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must score 4 or higher on the ASRS v. 1.1

• Must live within 45 minutes driving distance from UVM campus

• Must be able to exercise

• Must have a computer with internet access and ability to utilize flash

• Must be 18 or older

Exclusion Criteria:

• Health issues that preclude exercise

• use of medications that interfere with the ability to lose weight

• vacation longer than two weeks

• current participation in another weight loss program

• reside more than 45 minutes from UVM campus in Burlington

• no internet access, no home computer, or computer cannot use flash

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• ADHD
• Weight Loss

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Adaptive Working Memory Training
Participants will train for 30-40 minutes per day, five days per week at home for 5 weeks using an adaptive cognitive training program which becomes increasingly challenging as the participant masters each level. Behavioral classes will teach the principles of weight management and exercise.
• Non-adaptive cognitive training
Participants will train for 30-40 minutes per day, five days per week at home for 5 weeks using a non-adaptive cognitive training program. Behavioral classes will teach the principles of weight management and exercise.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Behavioral Weight Management Program/Univ of Vermont	Burlington	Vermont

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Vermont

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Weight	Participants weight at baseline will be compared to their weight at 24 weeks at the completion of the study.	24 weeks	No