Clinical trial NCT03223493: Awareness, Care & Treatment in Obesity Management (ACTION) Study
Official title: Awareness, Care & Treatment in Obesity Management (ACTION) Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Metabolism and Nutrition Disorder
Obesity
Lead sponsor: Novo Nordisk A/S
Sponsor class: INDUSTRY
First posted: 2017-07-21
Enrollment: 3767
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE

Brief summary: The ACTION (Awareness, Care, and Treatment In Obesity management) study aims to identify perceptions, attitudes, behaviours, and potential barriers to effective obesity care across three respondent types: 1) People with Obesity, 2) Healthcare Providers and 3) Employer Representatives in the US. Data is collected via online surveys using a cross-sectional, US-based stratified sample design.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* GENERAL POPULATION
* Agrees to AE reporting
* Age at least 18 years
* Lives in the US
* Current BMI at least 30 kg/sqm
* HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
* Agrees to AE reporting
* Physician and board certified or NP/PA
* Facility located in the U.S. and not Vermont
* Spends at least 70% of time in direct patient care
* Seen at least 100 patients in past month
* Seen at least 10 patients in past month needing weight management
* In practice 2-35 years
* Not competitively employed
* Primary Care Providers
* Specialty is FP, IM, GP
* Less than 50% patients seen for obesity
* Obesity Specialists
* Obesity medicine or weight loss specialist or at least 50% of patients seen for obesity
* In practice 2-35 years
* EMPLOYERS
* Age at least 18 years
* Works in the US
* Director, Administrator, CHRO, VP or other title
* Responsible for making or influencing decisions about health insurance or health and wellness programs
* Company employs 500 or more full-time employees
* Believes there is a weight issue at their company
* Not competitively employed

Exclusion Criteria:

- None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Awareness with the care and management of obesity among people with obesity
timeFrame: Start of interviews day 1 until day 15
measure: Awareness with the care and management of obesity among health care providers
timeFrame: Start of interviews day 1 until day 15
measure: Awareness with the care and management of obesity among employer representatives
timeFrame: Start of interviews day 1 until day 15
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Honeoye Falls
country: United States
facility: Novo Nordisk Investigational Site
state: New York
Study officials:
References:
citation: Kaplan LM, Golden A, Jinnett K, Kolotkin RL, Kyle TK, Look M, Nadglowski J, O'Neil PM, Parry T, Tomaszewski KJ, Stevenin B, Lilleore SK, Dhurandhar NV. Perceptions of Barriers to Effective Obesity Care: Results from the National ACTION Study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Jan;26(1):61-69. doi: 10.1002/oby.22054. Epub 2017 Oct 31.
citation: Jinnett K, Kyle T, Parry T, Stevenin B, Ramasamy A; ACTION Steering Group. Insights into the Role of Employers Supporting Obesity Management in People with Obesity: Results of the National ACTION Study. Popul Health Manag. 2019 Aug;22(4):308-314. doi: 10.1089/pop.2018.0133. Epub 2018 Oct 31.
citation: Look M, Kolotkin RL, Dhurandhar NV, Nadglowski J, Stevenin B, Golden A. Implications of differing attitudes and experiences between providers and persons with obesity: results of the national ACTION study. Postgrad Med. 2019 Jun;131(5):357-365. doi: 10.1080/00325481.2019.1620616. Epub 2019 Jun 3.
citation: Dhurandhar NV, Kyle T, Stevenin B, Tomaszewski K; ACTION Steering Group. Predictors of weight loss outcomes in obesity care: results of the national ACTION study. BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 30;19(1):1422. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7669-1.