NCT05625321Active, not recruiting
Stepping Into Lifestyle Changes
Community-Based Strategies to Reduce Cardiometabolic Disease in the Deep South
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 27 Aug 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of this study is to promote healthy weight loss among African American women, age 30 or older, who are pre-diabetic and/or have high blood pressure and who live, work, or worship in select rural communities throughout Alabama and Mississippi. The goal of the study is to help reduce the burden of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure for these women and to collect information on the reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance, and cost effectiveness of our two evidence-base weight loss programs.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 273 (actual)
- First submitted
- 2 Nov 2022
- Start date
- 27 Mar 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Diseases
- Obesity, High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT05625321
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 273
- From 27 Mar 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2025
- 2 sites 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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Lab values
- a baseline blood pressure and/or glucose that is outside of the normal range and a medical provider does not provide clearance to participate
Other
- being or planning to become pregnant during the 18-month study duration
- medical contraindications
Who the study is looking for
- self-identifies as Black and/or African American
- ≥ 30 years old
- a measured BMI \>25 kg/m2 and at least one other cardiometabolic risk factor (physician diagnosis of pre-diabetes and/or hypertension within past 2 years)
- lives, works, or worships in one of the 12 intervention communities and expresses no intentions to move outside of that community in the 18 months following enrollment
- a willingness to participate in the study for the 18-months duration.
Age in the registry: 30 years to - · Sex: Female · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Unknown status |
| The University of Mississippi Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Jackson | United States | Unknown status |
This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.