NCT02863887

Lifestyle Changes Through Exercise and Nutrition

The Lifestyle Changes Through Exercise and Nutrition (LEAN) Project

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of The LEAN project intervention is to promote weight loss, healthy dietary habits, increased physical activity, improved blood glucose and cholesterol, and weight related quality of life in obese African American adults through a sustainable, technology enhanced, church-based program.

Detailed description

The LEAN Project is a community-based weight loss program that is delivered through churches serving lower-income, obese, African American adults. The intervention will involve training community health coaches to deliver the intervention. These community health coaches will be individuals who are members of the church and who are willing to be trained on how to deliver behaviorally-based, empirically proven, lifestyle change interventions. These community health coaches will be trained by the staff at Pennington Biomedical, who have experience training and delivering these types of interventions. The community health coaches will deliver the intervention through their respective church after being trained. Weekly text messages will be sent to participants in order to supplement the intervention sessions and provide support. The primary aim is to determine if the trained community health coach church-based intervention will result in significant weight loss. Secondary aims will assess blood glucose, cholesterol, physical activity, food intake, and weight related quality of life.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Diabetes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Weight loss intervention	The intervention will involve utilizing trained community health coaches to deliver the weight loss intervention. There will be 10 group based sessions conducted at each church over 6 months. Session frequency will be 4 weekly sessions (4) for the first month, bimonthly sessions for 2 months (4) and monthly sessions for 2 months (2). The study is based upon weight loss strategies that have been utilized in the Diabetes Prevention Program. The group sessions will be augmented by utilizing text messages. The text messages will be delivered weekly and three types of messages will be delivered: 1) lesson content, 2) motivational, 3) behavioral prompts.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-09-23
• Completion: 2017-09-23
• First posted: 2016-08-11
• Last updated: 2018-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States