Implementation Intentions for Weight Loss and Dietary Change in College Students With Overweight and Obesity

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

One in three college students have overweight or obesity and are in need of brief and simple weight loss interventions that complement their unstructured lifestyles. Implementation intentions, a strategy that connects a goal-aligned behavior to a cue, facilitate goal-attainment for a wide variety of health-behaviors, but have not been tested as a stand-alone treatment for weight loss in students. College students with overweight or obesity (N = 95) were randomized to one of three conditions: an implementation intention group (IMP), an enhanced implementation intention group (IMP+) that included text message reminders and fluency training (i.e., training for speed and accuracy), and a control goal intention group (GOL) for four weeks. Participants completed anthropometric and self-report assessments pre- and post-treatment as well as experience-sampling assessments during the study to assess how implementation intentions contribute more directly to behavior change

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04105309

Run by

Washington University School of Medicine

People needed

95

Starts

2017-06-01

Expected to finish

2018-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 25. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• BMI greater than or equal to 25
• Interest in losing weight
• Own a mobile Smart phone and willing to receive study text messages and download a mobile application

You may not qualify if…

• Currently participating in a formal weight loss program
• Meet diagnostic criteria for an eating disorder as measured by the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale

Where it is running

• Washington University in St. Louis — St Louis, Missouri, United States

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