Weight Loss Maintenance in Primary Care
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Obesity, Overweight
In brief
After a three month weight loss phase involving the use of meal replacements, participants are randomized into different weight loss maintenance conditions. Aim 1: To test the hypothesis that the meal replacement (MR) and reduced energy density eating (REDE) interventions, when added separately to the LEARN program, will produce superior weight loss maintenance compared to a LEARN-only intervention. Aim 2: To test the hypothesis that the weight loss maintenance condition that combines MRs and REDE will produce better maintenance of weight losses than either individual component and than the LEARN-only condition. Aim 3: To test the hypothesis that the two conditions receiving the REDE intervention will experience longer-lasting improvements in the energy density and nutritional composition of the diet compared to the two non-REDE conditions.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00455780
- Run by
- Drexel University
- People needed
- 238
- Starts
- 2005-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2010-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2011-05-25
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- BMI of 30, or BMI of 27 with weight-related comorbidities
- Access to a telephone and voice mail/answering machine
- MUST be seeing a primary care physician working with us on this study (in the greater Philadelphia area)
You may not qualify if…
- Previously/currently diagnosed with an eating disorder
- Current bi-polar, depression, substance abuse, or dependence disorder
- Living with someone already enrolled
- Enrolled in another weight loss program
- Current disorder/medications affecting body weight or energy expenditure (e.g. thyroid disease)
- Myocardial infraction within the past three months
- Unstable angina
- Nephrotic syndrome/malabsorptive disease
- Gout attack within the past year
- Lactating/pregnant (or planning within next two years)
- Current/recent history of cancer, neurological disease, high creatinine levels, active hepatic disease
Where it is running
- Drexel University — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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