NCT02959021Completed
Partnership Optimizes Weight Management in Primary Care
Primary Care Obesity Management in the Southeast_PROMISE
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to examine whether a primary care weight management intervention delivered by peer coaches produces greater weight loss than a self-directed program without peer coach support.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 375 (actual)
- First submitted
- 4 Nov 2016
- Start date
- Jan 2017
- Primary completion date
- 15 Apr 2021
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT02959021
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 375
- From Jan 2017 to the primary completion date, 15 Apr 2021
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Current use of any of the following medications: antipsychotic agents, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, systemic corticosteroids, or chemotherapeutic drugs; prescription weight loss medications (past six months)
Other illness
- Uncontrolled hypertension (blood pressure \>160/100 mm Hg at screening)
- Any of the following other medical conditions: myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular accident within the last six months; unstable angina within the past six months; NYHA Class III or IV congestive heart failure; type 1 diabetes; cancer requiring treatment in past five years (exception: non-melanoma skin cancer); and chronic lung diseases that limit physical activity
- History of bariatric surgery
Other
- Unwilling or unable to do any of the following: give informed consent; read/understand English; accept random assignment; travel to the intervention site
- Likely to relocate out of the area in the next 2 years
- Participation in another randomized research project
- Weight loss \> 10 pounds in past six months
Who the study is looking for
- Age 21-75 years
- Body mass index (BMI) 30-50 kg/m2
- Receiving primary care services at one of the practices participating in this study
Age in the registry: 21 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
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