Peer Coaching to Support Weight Management in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Employing peer coaches to provide weight management counseling in primary care could address patient- and clinician-level barriers to obesity care, improve outcomes, and boost engagement in weight management programs.

Objective

To evaluate the efficacy of peer coaching to deliver a low- to moderate-intensity intervention for weight management compared with enhanced usual care (EUC).

Design, setting, and participants

This 2-arm, cluster randomized clinical trial was conducted from November 2017 to August 2021 at a single US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) site. Primary care physicians (PCPs) and their patients with a body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of at least 25 (overweight) or 30 or more (obesity)

SUBMITTER: Wittleder S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12406063 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature