Evaluating "Health at Every Size"(HAES) as an Alternative Obesity Treatment Model

Hypertension Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluating "Health at Every Size"(HAES) as an Alternative Obesity Treatment Model

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00074633
• Other study ID #: OBFRETTO (completed)
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 17, 2003
• Last updated: January 12, 2010
• Start date: January 2000

Study information

• Verified date: January 2010
• Source: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Federal Government
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Increasingly more individuals are trying to lose weight. Indeed, many women, regardless of their size, experience a life-long battle and preoccupation with their weight. Despite the attention to weight and the increase in diet behavior, the incidence of obesity continues to rise. There is little data to show improved long term success for the majority of participants who engage in weight loss behaviors.

The specific aim is to improve the psychological and metabolic health of obese women with a history of chronic dieting through encouraging "Health at Every Size" (HAES). This treatment model emphasizes "intutitive eating," i.e., internal regulation of eating (responding to cues of hunger, appetite and satiety). The HAES model is being compared to the current standard of care in obesity treatment, energy restriction dieting, which encourages cognitive control of eating and weight reduction.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 79
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 30 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

• Caucasian;

• female;

• age 30-45 years;

• Body Mass Index (BMI)>30 m/kg2;

• non-smoker;

• not pregnant or lactating;

• Restraint Scale (Herman and Polivy, 1988) score >15, indicating a history of chronic dieting;

• no recent myocardial infarction;

• no active neoplasms, Type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes, nor history of cerebrovascular or renal disease.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Hypercholesterolemia
• Hypertension

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Health at Every Size (HAES)

• Diet (Traditional, moderate energy restriction)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Nutrition Department, University of California, Davis	Davis	California
United States	Western Human Nutrition Research Center	Davis	California

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)	United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), University of California, Davis

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Bacon L, Keim NL, Van Loan MD, Derricote M, Gale B, Kazaks A, Stern JS. Evaluating a 'non-diet' wellness intervention for improvement of metabolic fitness, psychological well-being and eating and activity behaviors. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2002 Jun;26(6):854-65. — View Citation