NCT06724406Recruiting
FAMily-centered WEight Loss for Black Adults (FAM WEL B-ing)
FAMily-centered WEight Loss for Black Adults (FAM WEL B-ing): Optimization and Evaluation Using Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) and Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn the best combination of family components that yields optimal weight loss among Black adults. The main question it aims to answer is: What combination of four family components in combination with a standard behavioral weight loss program yields optimal weight loss among Black adults? Researchers will compare different combinations of family skills components (communication content, cohesion content, number of sessions, and mode of delivery) to see the best weight loss. Participants will: * Participate in a 6-month behavioral weight loss intervention * Attend core weight loss in-person group sessions, and dyad based family sessions * Keep track of weight, dietary intake and physical activity
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 256 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Dec 2024
- Start date
- 3 Feb 2025
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2028
- Lead sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT06724406
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 256
- From 3 Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2028
- 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
- participation in an intensive weight loss program (more than 12 visits) in the prior 12 months
- had bariatric surgery (surgery for weight loss) in the last 2 years or considering bariatric surgery in the next 8-9 months
- using or in the prior 3 months taking prescription weight loss medications, or planning to start medications intentionally for weight loss
- malignancy other than non-melanoma skin cancer, unless considered cured \> 5 years ago. Exceptions include 1) men with localized prostate cancer (treated with usual modalities or managed with "active surveillance"), and 2) postmenopausal women receiving adjuvant endocrine therapy (e.g., aromatase inhibitor) for non-metastatic, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer
Other illness
- type 1 diabetes
- significant psychiatric illness, defined as depression or other major psychiatric illness not considered reasonably managed by counseling, medication, or both
Lab values
- self-report of advanced kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \< 30 mL/min)
Other
- planning to move out of the area with the next 8-9 months
- lost more than 20 pounds of body weight in last 6 months
- are pregnant or planning to get pregnant in the next 8-9 months
- are breastfeeding an infant less than 3 months old
- alcohol or substance abuse, defined as alcohol or substance use that interferes with work activities and/or has had a major negative impact on family/social function, the latter defined as more than 2 episodes per month.
Who the study is looking for
- self-identified as Black or African American (Index participant)
- BMI equal to greater than 30 kg/m\^2 (Index); BMI equal to greater than 27.5 kg/m\^2 (family partner)
- have a partner/family member willing to enroll in the study and must share a mutual goal of achieving weight loss
- English speaking
- ages 18-75
- any gender
- have access to and be able to use a smartphone, tablet, or computer that has web-access (this is required for data collection and some program components being tested)
- able to make changes to the food you eat
Age in the registry: 18 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chapel Hill | United States | Recruiting |
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