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CompletedNCT02121691

Faith-Based Initiative to Promote Health in Appalachia

Appalachia Community Cancer Network II Centers for Reducing Cancer Disparities: Faith-Based Initiative to Promote Health in Appalachia

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
669 (actual)
Sponsor
Mark Dignan, PhD · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

The project will target two behavioral causes of obesity: a sedentary lifestyle and an unhealthy diet. The goal is to test a faith-based intervention among men and women who are members of participating Appalachian churches. The primary hypothesis being tested in this project is: The change in body mass index from baseline to one year follow-up in intervention churches will be greater than among comparison churches, such that the differential change will be negative on average.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BEHAVIORALWalk by FaithThe Walk by Faith program is aimed at increasing physical activity and improving healthy eating to reduce or maintain healthy BMI among members of the churches.

Timeline

Start date
2013-04-01
Primary completion
2013-12-01
First posted
2014-04-23
Last updated
2017-06-16

Locations

5 sites across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02121691. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.