Project Health: Enhancing Effectiveness of a Dissonance-Based Obesity Prevention Program
Running, not enrolling · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Overweight and Obesity
In brief
This project seeks to improve the effectiveness of a novel dissonance-based obesity prevention program that has reduced future BMI gain and overweight/obesity onset by (a) experimentally testing whether implementing it in single- versus mixed-sex groups, which should increase dissonance-induction that contributes to weight gain prevention effects, and (b) experimentally testing whether adding food response and attention training, which theoretically reduces valuation of and attention for high-calorie foods, increases weight gain prevention effects. This randomized trial would be the first to experimentally manipulate these two factors in an effort to produce superior weight gain prevention effects. A brief effective obesity prevention program that can be easily, inexpensively, and broadly implemented to late adolescents at risk for excess weight gain, as has been the case with another dissonance-based prevention program, could markedly reduce the prevalence of obesity and associated morbidity and mortality.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03710746
- Run by
- Oregon Research Institute
- People needed
- 406
- Starts
- 2018-10-08
- Expected to finish
- 2025-06-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-08-09
Who can join
Age: 17 and older, up to 20. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Current at least moderate weight concerns (response of moderate, severe or extreme to the presence of weight concerns question)
- BMI between 20 and 30
You may not qualify if…
- Current diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder
Where it is running
- Oregon Research Institute — Eugene, Oregon, United States
- Drexel University — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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