Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00892788
A Behavioral Intervention for Reducing Obesity
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 56 (actual)
- Sponsor
- UConn Health · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This study will examine a contingency management (CM) intervention designed to provide incentives for losing weight versus participating in a manual-guided behavioral weight loss intervention alone. Participants in the CM condition will earn the opportunity to win prizes by losing weight and completing activities that contribute to weight loss, such as keeping daily food and physical activity diaries, choosing healthy foods, exercising, and using other weight loss strategies. The investigators will determine if the CM improves weight loss relative to the usual care manual-guided intervention alone.
Conditions
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 sessions with research staff |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2010-07-01
- Completion
- 2010-07-01
- First posted
- 2009-05-05
- Last updated
- 2019-04-09
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00892788. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.