NCT05386238Completed
Engaging Men From Blue-collar Industries in Weight Loss
Engaging Men From Blue-collar Industries in Weight Loss: Study 3- Evaluating the Acceptability of Weight Loss Treatments
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Mar 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Objectives\*: Primary Objective: Aim 1: Examine the acceptability of tailored behavioral weight loss program and a standard program in men working in blue-collar occupations. Aim 2: Compare recruitment approaches that vary on trust-based messaging to recruit men with overweight/obesity who work in blue-collar occupations. Secondary Objectives: Determine the feasibility of retaining participants to a randomized trial over six months.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 28 (actual)
- First submitted
- 12 May 2022
- Start date
- 28 Sept 2022
- Primary completion date
- 15 Nov 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Rush University Medical Center
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05386238
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 28
- From 28 Sept 2022 to the primary completion date, 15 Nov 2023
- 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
- Weight loss in the prior six months of 10 pounds or greater
Other illness
- History of bariatric surgery
- Diabetes managed with insulin
- Diagnosis of a serious mental illness
- Conditions contraindicated to exercise independently (determined using four questions of Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire)
- Diagnosis of an eating disorder
- Any major medical condition that could increase risk for injury or other contradictions for treatment, or high likelihood of attrition, as determined by the study team
Other
- Report of potentially hazardous alcohol use (ASSIST \>27)
- Body mass index ≥60 kg/m2, due to increased injury risk with exercise
Who the study is looking for
- Age 18 years and older
- Male
- Body mass index (BMI) \> 25 kg/m2
- Employed \>20 hours per week in an occupation classified as blue collar
- Ability to communicate in English
- Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Male · Accepts 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rush University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Unknown status |
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