NCT03674229

Patients Navigators in Facilitating Weight Management in Obese Participants

Using Patient Navigators to Facilitate Weight Management Among Adults

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 171 (actual)
• Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This trial studies the effectiveness of patient navigators in facilitating weight management in obese participants. Health coaches or patient navigators may help more participants take part in weight management programs.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the effectiveness of patient navigators to increase enrollment in evidence-based weight management programs. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the effectiveness of patient navigators to increase overall attendance or use of evidence-based weight management programs. II. To evaluate the effectiveness of patient navigators to promoting and facilitating positive health behavior change: increased physical activity; improved diet; and weight loss. OUTLINE: Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 groups. GROUP I: Participants receive information about commercially-available weight management programs and encouragement to participate in one of the programs for 6 months. GROUP II: Participants receive information about commercially-available weight management programs encouragement to participate in one of the programs for 6 months. Participants also receive 6 phone calls over 20-30 minutes each from an assigned patient navigator for 6 months. After completion of the study, participants are followed up at 2 months.

Conditions

• Health Status Unknown
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Informational Intervention	Receive information about weight management programs
OTHER	Questionnaire Administration	Ancillary studies
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone-Based Intervention	Receive phone calls from an assigned patient navigator

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-02
• Primary completion: 2030-10-01
• Completion: 2030-10-01
• First posted: 2018-09-17
• Last updated: 2026-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States