NCT03991676

A Study of a Values-Based Intervention to Promote Weight Loss

Completed NA Last updated 24 October 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Values-Based Behavioral Treatment in Obesity in 19 participants. Completed in 13 September 2019.

Timeline

29 April 2019

Primary endpoint
13 September 2019

13 September 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Drexel University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	na
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	19
Start date	29 April 2019
Primary completion	13 September 2019
Estimated completion	13 September 2019
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Values-Based Behavioral Treatment

Conditions studied

• Obesity — all drugs for Obesity →
• Weight Loss — all drugs for Weight Loss →

Sponsor

Drexel University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 70, any sex, with Obesity or Weight Loss. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

More than 160 million American adults are overweight or obese. Existing weight loss interventions from self-help to gold standard behavioral treatments, while often effective, do not sufficiently maintain motivation to adhere to dietary goals in the face of powerful biological and environmental influences to consume highly palatable foods. Clarification and awareness of values, a staple of acceptance-based treatments drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, are thought to enhance autonomous motivation to engage in behaviors consistent with one's personal life values (e.g., health) in the presence of countervailing forces (e.g., hunger, deprivation). However, the independent efficacy of values clarification and awareness in facilitating weight control has never been tested. This pilot study seeks to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a series of three weight loss workshops (based off the gold standard) infused with values clarification and awareness techniques to promote weight control. Participants will be asked to follow a reduced-calorie dietary prescription while holding their values in mind in moments of dietary decision-making over the course of one month. The primary aims of this study are to: 1) develop the series of values-infused workshops, using participant feedback to iterate and improve the treatment manual; and 2) evaluate treatment acceptability. Secondary aims are: 1) to evaluate whether clinically meaningful changes in measures of values clarification and values awareness occur; 2) to evaluate whether the intervention will lead participants to experience clinically meaningful changes in values-congruent weight control behaviors; 3) to evaluate whether the intervention will lead participants to experience clinically meaningful changes in weight; and 4) to evaluate theorized mechanisms of action in the intervention.

Publications & conference data

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