NCT00875199

Contingency Management to Promote Weight Loss in Low Income Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: UConn Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is designed to evaluate the feasibility and provide preliminary evidence for efficacy of a 12-week contingency management intervention to promote weight loss in overweight and obese low income adults in a community-based clinic. The study has three primary goals: (a) to determine if the contingency management treatment can be effectively applied to a new application, weight loss; (b) to obtain preliminary evidence for contingency management's efficacy in promoting weight loss and improving treatment retention, diet quality, physical activity levels, and self efficacy; and (c) to identify barriers and challenges to implementing contingency management for weight loss among low income patients.

Conditions

• Overweight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	contingency management	Prize-based contingency management for weight loss
BEHAVIORAL	weight loss manual-guided individual therapy sessions	once weekly counseling session with research staff

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-03-01
• Completion: 2010-03-01
• First posted: 2009-04-03
• Last updated: 2011-11-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States