Recruiting nowNot applicableInterventional
What this study is about
This trial aims to test the feasibility and acceptability of addressing interpersonal barriers to weight-related behavior change. Specifically, the study will test if, by including up to two friends, family members, or co-workers in a lifestyle intervention for weight loss, the person enrolled in the study loses more weight than someone whose friends, family members, or co-workers were not invited to participate.
A promising-looking record is not the same as confirmed eligibility. The study team must review the full criteria and current recruitment status.
Basic eligibility
Age18 Years to Not listed
SexAll
Healthy volunteersNot accepted
ConditionObesity
Full registry criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Index Participant: 1. Black race or Hispanic ethnicity 2. Male or Female 18 years of age or older 3. Calculated BMI \> 30kg/m2 from objectively measured height and weight by study staff 4. Access \& willingness to use program food intake app via home computer or a smartphone 5. Ability to identify at least one adult social network member who will participate in the study * Social Network Member: 1. Male or Female 18 years of age or older 2. Access to the internet or a smartphone Exclusion Criteria: * Index Participant: 1. Active enrollment in a weight-loss program, use of weight-loss medications, or planning weight-loss surgery 2. Advanced medical illness, dementia, hospitalization, injury, or pregnancy that inhibits regular physical activity 3. Contraindications to exercise based on the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire or lack of clearance from a health care provider 4. Unresolved Food insecurity 5. Speaks a language other than English or Spanish * Social Network Member: 1. Speaks a language other than English or Spanish
Treatments and study arms
Social Network Intervention
Behavioral
Social Network interventions are an intentional effort to modify or use the characteristics of social networks to improve, generate, and maintain healthy behaviors among individuals and populations. This study will focus on implementing a behavioral social-network intervention to promote changes in weight loss behaviors.
Individual Lifestyle Intervention
Behavioral
The individual lifestyle intervention will serve as the control group and will implement the use of DPP based health coaching sessions to promote individual level changes in weight loss behaviors.
Social Network Member
Other
The social network member will serve as the friend, family member, or co-worker nominated to participate in the social network intervention by the social network intervention participant.
Primary outcomes
Number of participants who have attended at least 75 percent of the behavioral coaching sessionsEnd of study (24 weeks)
Number of intervention participants who have at least one social network member engage in the studyEnd of Study (24 weeks)
Number of participants and social network members combined who complete the final study assessmentEnd of Study (24 Weeks)
Study locations
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Weill Cornell Medicine🇺🇸 New York, New York, United StatesErica Phillips, MD, MSContact Erica Phillips, MD, MSPrincipal Investigator 