NCT03874988

Building an Evidence Base for Weight Loss Strategies Among Those With Chronic SCI-The GLB-SCI+

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Baylor Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study's overarching aim is to follow a systematic approach that incorporates community-based participatory research (CBPR) to develop a multi-component weight loss intervention that may yield significant effects for a chronic SCI sample. The approach is to obtain data on the 3 unique strategies (prepackaged/portion-controlled meals; enhanced self-monitoring; the GLB-SCI) to inform design of an empirically supported and consumer-validated multicomponent intervention program, that combines the best of the 3 approaches into one unique intervention, the GLB SCI+. Based on the investigators' prior experience with adapting and delivering the GLB AIM (a lifestyle intervention previously adapted for those with impaired mobility), interim findings, existing literature, and consumer feedback, they hypothesize that these 3 unique strategies may confer individualized benefits to people with SCI given their complex disability-related barriers to weight loss.

Conditions

• Spinal Cord Injuries
• Obesity
• Weight Loss
• Diet Modification

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Portion-Controlled Meals	Participants will receive portion-controlled meals with the aim of encouraging weight loss and healthier eating.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced Self-Monitoring	Participants will be encouraged to track their physical activity, food intake, and weight using technology that will be provided as part of the study.
BEHAVIORAL	GLB-SCI	Participants will take part in a lifestyle intervention program (tailored for spinal cord injury needs) that encourages steady weight loss through increased physical activity and healthier diet patterns.
BEHAVIORAL	GLB-SCI+	Participants will receive a combination of the prior interventions studied, with the goal of showing that a multi-component intervention will be the most effective in encouraging weight loss among participants with a spinal cord injury.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-10-19
• Completion: 2022-06-15
• First posted: 2019-03-14
• Last updated: 2025-10-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States