NCT07406568

Pilot Trial of the Move Healthier Group

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The researchers are developing a new exercise-focused group and are interested in studying whether this group helps people increase their exercise without increasing risk for disordered eating behaviors.

Detailed description

Individuals seeking weight loss are often encouraged to increase their exercise engagement as a health-promoting behavior. However, exercise engagement is often connected directly to caloric intake within weight loss interventions, so it is likely that individuals seeking weight loss are engaging in some level of compensatory exercise even in the absence of other disordered eating symptoms. Compensatory exercise is defined as exercising to "offset" or "make up for" calories consumed with the intent of controlling one's body weight or shape. The researchers are developing a new group to promote healthy exercise and are interested in studying whether this group helps people increase their exercise without increasing risk for compensatory exercise or other disordered eating behaviors.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Overweight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Move Healthier Intervention	The intervention aims to increase exercise using cognitive and behavioral skills integrated across several treatment manuals including the Physical Activity Cognitively Enhanced (PACE) intervention for healthy exercise promotion in eating disorders, acceptance-based and standard behavioral weight loss manuals, and affect-guided exercise prescriptions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-05-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2026-02-12
• Last updated: 2026-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States