NCT04848532Completed
Problematic Decision-Making and Adolescent Weight Loss
Does Aberrant Decision Making Prevent Success in Adolescent Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment?
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Jun 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study evaluates the associations between baseline decision-making processes, engagement in problematic dietary practices, and post-intervention weight loss outcomes among adolescents. Results from the study will provide specific direction for what components should comprise future decision-making interventions for adolescents with overweight/obesity.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 63 (actual)
- First submitted
- 17 Mar 2021
- Start date
- 3 Feb 2021
- Primary completion date
- 15 Oct 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Drexel University
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT04848532
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 63
- From 3 Feb 2021 to the primary completion date, 15 Oct 2024
- 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
- Recently began or changed the dose of a medication that can cause significant change in weight
- Have experienced weight loss ≥ 5% in the previous 6 months
- Are engaging in compensatory vomiting, other severe compensatory behaviors, or more than 12 of any compensatory behaviors in the previous 3 months
- Are currently taking medication (e.g., Contrave, Alli, etc.) which is specifically intended for weight loss
Other illness
- Have diabetes or a history of bariatric surgery
- Current medical or psychiatric condition that may pose a risk to the participant during intervention, cause a change in weight, or limit ability to comply with the program (i.e., bulimia nervosa, substance abuse disorder, psychosis, bipolar I disorder, and/or any condition prohibiting physical activity)
Other
- Acute suicide risk
- Inability to engage in physical activity (defined as walking two city blocks without stopping)
- Are pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next 2 years
- Are planning to begin in the next 16 months, or are currently participating in, another weight loss treatment or psychotherapy for binge eating and/or weight loss
Who the study is looking for
- Are between 14 and 18 years of age
- Have a BMI between the 85th and 99th percentiles for sex and age as determined by the CDC growth charts
- Are currently living at home with a parent or guardian
- Have at least one parent or guardian who is willing to participate in the study
- Are willing to complete baseline assessment tasks
- Have a smartphone, are willing to download an app to track food intake and complete surveys on the phone for two seven-day periods throughout the course of the study, and are willing to wear a fitness tracker during these same two week-long periods
- Are located in the US and wiling/able to participate in remote intervention and assessments
Age in the registry: 14 years to 18 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drexel University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
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