NCT02169947

Weight Loss and Maintenance for Rural, African American Communities of Faith (The WORD)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 425 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Arkansas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The WORD (Wholeness, Oneness, Righteousness, Deliverance) is a faith-based weight loss study in rural, African American adults of faith. The study will see whether a weight loss + maintenance intervention will cause participants to maintain their weight better than a weight loss only intervention.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Weight loss core	The weight loss core is a culturally adapted version of the Diabetes Prevention Program core 16 week session program.
BEHAVIORAL	Weight loss core plus maintenance	The intervention is a culturally adapted version of the Diabetes Prevention Program core 16 sessions plus 12 maintenance sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-02-28
• Completion: 2018-02-28
• First posted: 2014-06-23
• Last updated: 2018-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States