Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00271193
A Primary Care Intervention for Weight Management
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The study will test whether adding brief counseling visits with an ancillary health care provider (a nurse or nursing assistant) will induce additional weight loss, as compared with quarterly physician visits alone. All visits will take place at the site of usual patient care (i.e., the primary care clinic).
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Weight loss counseling | A comparison of weight loss advice provided by primary care physicians to advice plus brief weight loss counseling provided by medical assistants. Participants in both groups receive weight loss materials. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2005-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2008-06-01
- Completion
- 2008-06-01
- First posted
- 2005-12-30
- Last updated
- 2017-10-18
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00271193. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.