Pilot Trial of the Move Healthier Group
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Move Healthier Intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Obesity, Overweight. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
The researchers are developing a new exercise-focused group and are interested in studying whether this group helps people increase their exercise without increasing risk for disordered eating behaviors.
Detailed description
Individuals seeking weight loss are often encouraged to increase their exercise engagement as a health-promoting behavior. However, exercise engagement is often connected directly to caloric intake within weight loss interventions, so it is likely that individuals seeking weight loss are engaging in some level of compensatory exercise even in the absence of other disordered eating symptoms. Compensatory exercise is defined as exercising to "offset" or "make up for" calories consumed with the intent of controlling one's body weight or shape. The researchers are developing a new group to promote healthy exercise and are interested in studying whether this group helps people increase their exercise without increasing risk for compensatory exercise or other disordered eating behaviors.
Interventions
- Behavioral Move Healthier Intervention
The intervention aims to increase exercise using cognitive and behavioral skills integrated across several treatment manuals including the Physical Activity Cognitively Enhanced (PACE) intervention for healthy exercise promotion in eating disorders, acceptance-based and standard behavioral weight loss manuals, and affect-guided exercise prescriptions.
Primary outcome measures
- Objective physical activity [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 weeks]
- Self-reported physical activity [Time frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 weeks]
- Eating disorder symptoms [Time frame: Baseline and post-intervention (week 12)]
Secondary outcome measures (3)
- Weight bias internalization [Time frame: baseline and post-intervention (week 12)]
- intervention acceptability [Time frame: post-intervention (week 12)]
- intervention feasibility [Time frame: post-intervention (week 12)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Seen for weight loss treatment at DHMC Weight Center within the past year
- Speak, read, \& write English fluently
- Age 18 or older
- Appropriate for group visits (as assessed by referring provider)
Exclusion criteria
- Meets DSM-5 criteria for an eating disorder based on behavior frequencies reported on baseline EDE-Q
- Report contraindications for unsupervised physical activity on the PAR-Q, or have not been medically cleared by an MD for participation.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinics — Lebanon
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07406568 · STUDY02003218