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NCT04335799Active, not recruiting

Reducing Weight and Elevated Stress Levels Using Educational and Behavioral Tools

Improving Weight Loss Outcomes of Black Women Using a Culturally-Relevant Stress-Management Enhanced Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Jul 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this protocol is to test the effects on weight of an evidence-based behavioral weight loss program enhanced with culturally targeted stress management strategies compared to the evidence-based weight loss program alone among adult black females with obesity and elevated stress levels. Participants will be randomized to receive either a behavioral weight loss intervention with a focus on stress management or the weight loss intervention alone for 26 sessions.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
341 (actual)
First submitted
30 Jan 2020
Start date
12 Oct 2021
Primary completion date
19 Dec 2025
Lead sponsor
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Diseases
Obesity
NCT number
NCT04335799

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 341
  • From 12 Oct 2021 to the primary completion date, 19 Dec 2025
  • 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

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • currently taking medications for weight loss

Other illness

  • history of psychiatric hospitalization in past 2 years
  • history of substance abuse or eating disorder
  • any condition for which a medical professional has suggested diet modification, physical activity, and/or weight reduction would be contraindicated.

Lab values

  • known major medical or psychological condition known to influence body weight loss (e.g., medicated or poorly controlled diabetes (fasting blood glucose \> 126 mg/dL), cardiovascular event in the preceding 12 months, history of gastric bypass surgery, bariatric surgery, or eating disorder)

Other

  • pregnant or are planning to become pregnant in the next year

Who the study is looking for

  • BMI of at least 30 kg/m\^2
  • elevated stress levels based on perceived stress scale score
  • self-identified as black race

Age in the registry: 21 years to 75 years · Sex: Female · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Moffitt Cancer Center
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TampaUnited StatesUnknown status

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