Tests a healthy lifestyle program for teen girls with overweight or obesity
Compares an acceptance-based lifestyle program with health education in teen girls with overweight.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Nemours Children's Clinic
- Where
- Philadelphia, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- An Acceptance-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Diverse Adolescents
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 148 people, planned
- Started
- 14 Feb 2024
- Expected to end
- 1 Jan 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets a sham (pretend) treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Acceptance-based Treatment (ABT)
- Health Education (HE) Comparison
- Record updated
- 20 July 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for girls aged 14 to 19 with overweight or obesity. They would join a 6-month healthy lifestyle program or a health education program.
- Age
- 14 to 19 years
- Sex
- Girls only
- Disease stage
- BMI at or above the 85th percentile for sex and age
- Earlier treatment
- Cannot have recently started or changed a medicine known to affect appetite or body composition in the last 3 months. Cannot have had bariatric surgery.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Weight loss of 5% or more of body weight in the past 6 months (except after giving birth)
- Diagnosed diabetes (type 1 or 2)
- Diagnosis of an eating disorder
- Currently pregnant or less than 3 months after giving birth
- Active cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, or lung disease needing oxygen
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Ages 14-19
- Gender identification as girl
- BMI percentile ≥ 85th percentile for sex-and-age
Who cannot take part
- Having recently begun or changed the dosage of any medication known to affect appetite or body composition within the last 3 months
- Recent or ongoing problem with drug abuse, alcohol abuse, or addiction
- Active cancer or cancer requiring treatment in the past 2 years (except non-melanoma skin cancer)
- Active or chronic infections (e.g., HIV or TB)
- Active cardiovascular disease or event including hospitalization or therapeutic procedures for treatment of heart disease in the past 6 months
- Active kidney disease
- History of bariatric surgery
- Lung disease: chronic obstructive airway disease requiring use of oxygen (e.g., emphysema or chronic bronchitis)
- Diagnosed diabetes (type 1 or 2)
- Any condition prohibiting physical activity
- Diagnosis of an eating disorder
- Have a mental handicap or are currently experiencing other severe psychopathology that would limit their ability to engage in the treatment program (e.g., severe depression, active psychotic disorder)
- Experience of weight loss of ≥5% of body weight in the past 6 months for any reason except post-partum weight loss
- Plans to move out of the area within the next year
- Currently pregnant or less than 3 months post-partum
- Anticipation of a possible pregnancy in the next year
- Unwillingness to report possible or confirmed pregnancies promptly during the course of the trial
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 14 and 19 years old?
Where in United States
- Drexel UniversityPhiladelphia, United StatesContact: Stephanie Manasse, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about cardiovascular disease risk among adolescent girls with overweight/obesity. The main questions this trial aims to answer are:
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1. Does an acceptance-based healthy lifestyle intervention demonstrate more weight loss than a health education intervention? 2. Does an acceptance-based healthy lifestyle intervention show more improvements in participants' physiological, health-related, and psychological factors compared to a health education intervention?
Participants in this trial will:
1. Engage in treatment for 6-months, comprising of a mixture of in-person and remote group sessions, occurring at Drexel University or over a video-conferencing platform. 2. Complete various assessments. These include self-reported questionnaires, measures of weight, height, body composition, blood pressure, and blood lipids, and wearing of smart watches to measure sleep and physical activity.
Researchers will compare the acceptance-based and health education intervention groups to see if the acceptance-based treatment will indeed be effective in improving participants' health outcomes.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Acceptance-based Treatment (ABT)Treatment being tested
ABT will consist of 18, 90-minute group sessions over 6 months.
- Health Education (HE) ComparisonSham treatment, for comparison
HE will include nine, 75-minute group health education sessions handouts over 6 months.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Wellness Achieved Through Changing Habits (WATCH): An Acceptance-Based Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Diverse Adolescents
- Plain-language title
- Tests a healthy lifestyle program for teen girls with overweight or obesityGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06147973, who can take part
- Publications
- Record updated
- 20 July 2026