NCT03932994

Evaluation of the ACT on Health Program

Completed NA Last updated 24 March 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing ACT on Health in Overweight and Obesity in 79 participants. Completed in 20 December 2019.

Timeline

28 May 2019

Primary endpoint
20 December 2019

20 December 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Utah State University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	79
Start date	28 May 2019
Primary completion	20 December 2019
Estimated completion	20 December 2019
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• ACT on Health

Conditions studied

• Overweight and Obesity — all drugs for Overweight and Obesity →

Sponsor

Utah State University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Overweight and Obesity. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This project will develop and test an online health promotion program that augments diet and physical activity behavior change methods using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). ACT is an evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy found to be effective in over 200 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in improving a wide range of psychological and behavioral health problems. Recently, several clinical trials have found ACT enhances diet and exercise behavior as well as long term weight management. These studies have focused on testing ACT provided by experts in face-to-face interventions, which limits broad dissemination. Delivering an ACT health promotion program online could potentially provide a low-cost resource to improve health across Utah.

The specific aims are to:

1. Develop a canvas-based online course (ACT on Health) that teaches how to improve diet and physical activity as well as ACT-based skills to enhance behavior change efforts.
2. Evaluate ACT on Health relative to a waitlist in a RCT with 60 overweight/obese adults on outcomes including self-reported physical activity, diet, and quality of life.

If successful, this project will both provide an ongoing canvas extension course delivered throughout Utah to improve health behaviors.

This project seeks to develop and test an online, self-guided ACT program (ACT on Health) to improve diet and physical activity. ACT on Health will include 8 weekly modules teaching effective health behavior change methods coupled with ACT strategies to reduce maladaptive motivators and enhance adaptive motivators for change. The investigators will evaluate the program in a RCT relative to a waitlist condition with 60 overweight/obese adults recruited through Extension in 7 Utah counties. The program will be offered through the USU Extension Canvas platform to ensure, if effective, that the program could continue to be offered across Utah.

The two hypotheses for this study are as follows:

1. Participants will report a high degree of satisfaction and will demonstrate adequate engagement in the ACT on Health program.
2. Participants assigned to ACT on Health will improve more on self-reported diet, physical activity, and quality of life relative to the waitlist condition.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.