Weight Gain Prevention

Weight Gain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Study to Prevent Weight Gain

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00606840
• Other study ID #: #2018-07
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 22, 2008
• Last updated: April 12, 2012
• Start date: January 2008
• Est. completion date: September 2008

Study information

• Verified date: April 2012
• Source: The Miriam Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The specific aim of the proposed project is to test two separate self-regulation interventions to prevent weight gain in young adults, one based on making sustained small changes in behavior to prevent weight gain and the other on making periodic larger behavior changes resulting in weight loss.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: September 2008
• Est. primary completion date: September 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age 18-35

• Body mass index between 23 and 30

• Interested in preventing weight gain

Exclusion Criteria:

• BMI outside of range specified

• Age outside of range specified

• History of or current eating disorder or substance abuse

• Recent weight loss greater than 5% of weight

• Currently in another research study that would interfere

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Body Weight
• Weight Gain

Intervention

Behavioral:
• large changes in eating and activity
Behavioral self-regulation interventions to prevent weight gain in young adults.
• small changes in eating and activity
Behavioral self-regulation interventions to prevent weight gain in young adults.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	The Miriam Hospital	Providence	Rhode Island

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
The Miriam Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	weight change		8 weeks and 16 weeks	No
Secondary	frequency of weighing, adherence to intervention, diet, activity		8 weeks and 16 weeks	No