Status:

COMPLETED

Project Activate: Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Behavioral Treatment for Weight Loss

Lead Sponsor:

Drexel University

Conditions:

Obesity

Weight Loss

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-70 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Mindfulness and Acceptance based Behavioral Therapies (MABTs) are among the most promising behavioral approaches for obesity, with two recent large trials showing that they achieve better initial weig...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Individuals must be of overweight or obese BMI (27-50 kg/m2)
  • Individuals must be adults (aged 18-70)
  • Completion of a 3-day food diary
  • Completion of baseline assessment tasks
  • Willingness to lose weight, be physically active, and participate in-group sessions.
  • Participants must also provide consent for the research team to contact their personal physician if necessary to provide clearance or to consult about rapid weight gain.

Exclusion

  • Inability to engage in physical activity (defined as walking a city block without stopping)
  • Medical or psychiatric condition that may pose a risk to the participant during intervention, cause a change in weight, or limit ability to comply with the program
  • Recently began or changed the dose of a medication that can cause significant change in weight
  • History of bariatric surgery; weight loss of \> 5% in the previous 3 months
  • Currently pregnant or breastfeeding or planning to become pregnant
  • Planning to, or participating in, another weight loss treatment in the next 3 years.
  • Engaging in compensatory vomiting, other severe compensatory behaviors, or more than 12 of any compensatory behavior in the previous 3 months
  • Experiencing significant loss of control eating (9 or more binge episodes in the previous 3 months)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 15 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

November 7 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

285 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04337619

Start Date

August 15 2019

End Date

November 7 2024

Last Update

May 11 2025

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Drexel University Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104