NCT01560130

State-wide Health Approach to Increase Reach and Effectiveness: Study 2

Using a State-wide Initiative to Disseminate Effective Behavioral Weight Loss Strategies

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Miriam Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Behavioral weight loss programs can successfully reduce body weight, but these programs are available to limited numbers of overweight and obese individuals. This project evaluates a unique weight loss approach that combines a self-sustaining weight loss campaign (for outreach) with training in behavioral weight loss strategies and tests the efficacy of adding components designed to enhance accountability and increase motivation for weight loss.

Detailed description

This is a randomized trial. Participants will be randomly assigned to 1 of 3 treatment arms: (1) Shape Up Rhode Island (a community-based weight loss campaign) plus and Internet-based behavioral weight loss program (SURI+IBWL), (2) SURI + IBWL + optional group sessions (SURI+IBWL+Group), or (3) SURI+IBWL + monetary incentives for submitting self-monitoring information and achieving clinically significant weight loss. The primary outcome is weight loss at 12 weeks.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Shape Up Rhode Island + Online weight loss program	Participants assigned to this arm will receive the standard Shape Up Rhode Island statewide intervention and an Internet-based behavioral weight loss program.
BEHAVIORAL	Shape Up Rhode Island + Online weight loss program + Groups	Participants assigned to this arm will receive the standard Shape Up Rhode Island statewide intervention, an Internet-based behavioral weight loss program, and the option to attend group sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	Shape Up Rhode Island + Online weight loss + Incentives	Participants assigned to this arm will receive the standard Shape Up Rhode Island statewide intervention, an Internet-based behavioral weight loss program, and monetary incentives for submitting self-monitoring information and for achieving clinically significant weight loss.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-02-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2012-03-22
• Last updated: 2013-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States