Clinical trial NCT00149682: Obesity Assessment and Education Through the Internet
Official title: Obesity Assessment and Education Through the Internet
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Obesity
Keywords: Obesity
Lead sponsor: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Sponsor class: NIH
First posted: 2005-09-08
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to develop a web-based obesity risk assessment and counseling tool and examine its feasibility and effectiveness in improving the rate and quality of physician counseling about obesity, dietary change, and physical activity.

Detailed description: Despite the high prevalence of obesity and its associated health risks, physicians do not address weight and behaviors that contribute to obesity because of lack of knowledge, training, and access to resources. To address these physician barriers to counseling, the investigator has developed a web-based tool that collects and integrates relevant patient clinical and behavioral information online and generates patient-specific recommendations and links to resources in the form of electronic patient and physician reports. In doing so, the tool provides physicians with a time saving device that identifies at risk patients who are motivated to make behavioral changes; at the same time, the tool provides tailored resources and recommendations that help physicians deliver more effective counseling.

The pilot study described in this application randomizes overweight primary care patients to a control group and the web-based intervention. The aims of the study are to examine the feasibility of incorporating the web-based tool into primary care practice and to collect preliminary data on its potential effectiveness on improving the rate and quality of physician-patient discussions about weight and on improving several clinical and behavioral outcomes.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Received invitation from participating primary care practices
* Scheduled non-urgent appointment with their usual primary care provider
* BMI \> 25 kg/m2
* Willing and able to participate in a web-based computerized self-administered questionnaire
* English-speaking

Exclusion Criteria:

* Pregnancy
* Terminal illness
* Not competent to give consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Physician counseling about weight and weight-related behaviors
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Changes in cardiovascular risk factors
measure: Improvements in physical activity and dietary behavior
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
name: Christina C. Wee, MD, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Wee CC, Davis RB, Phillips RS. Stage of readiness to control weight and adopt weight control behaviors in primary care. J Gen Intern Med. 2005 May;20(5):410-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.0074.x.