Health-Smart for Weight Loss at UF Jax Clinics



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Obesity Weight Loss
Therapuetic Areas:Endocrinology
Healthy:No
Age Range:21 - 100
Updated:2/20/2019
Start Date:April 1, 2018
End Date:December 31, 2021
Contact:Carolyn Tucker, PhD
Email:cmtucker@ufl.edu
Phone:352-273-2167

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria

Culturally Sensitive Primary Care Clinic-based Interventions by Community Health Workers and Trained Physicians to Promote and Sustain Weight Loss Among Obese Black Women Patients

The study will test the effectiveness of a culturally sensitive, evidence-based,
multi-component, behavioral program for treating obesity called Health-Smart. This program is
being implemented by Community Health Workers at the primary care centers and followed by
either of two physician-implemented behavioral counseling programs to prevent weight
gain--programs that are implemented quarterly over 12 months.


Inclusion Criteria:

- African American/black

- Female

- Age 21 years or older

- BMI range ≥ 30kg/m2 (5) active patient of a participating clinic (i.e., at least 2
clinic visits in the last 24 months)

- Willing and ready to change one's diet and physical activity level

- Willing to be randomized to either of the two weight-loss maintenance intervention
groups

Exclusion Criteria:

- Any serious medical condition that likely affects weight, such as end stage renal
disease or cancer

- Prior bariatric surgery within the last 5 years or plans for this surgery in the next
2 years

- Use of prescription or over-the-counter weight-loss medication within the last 6
months

- Pregnant or plan to get pregnant within the next 2 years

- Plan to relocate from the area within the next 2 years

- Having had unintentional weight loss (>or = to 5% of body weight) within 6 months
prior to enrollment

- Taking a daily dose of oral corticosteroid antipsychotic (clozapine, olanzapine, or
risperidone) for less than 6 months
We found this trial at
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UF Health Jacksonville Primary Care network
655 8th Street West
Jacksonville, Florida 32209
Phone: 904-244-9276
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