A Toolbox Approach to Obesity Treatment in Urban Safety-Net Primary Care Clinics: a Pragmatic Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a need for new strategies to improve the success of obesity treatment within the primary care setting.

Objective

To determine if patients offered low out-of-pocket cost weight management tools achieved more weight loss compared to usual care.

Design

Twelve-month pragmatic clinical weight loss trial with a registry-based comparator group performed in primary care clinics of an urban safety-net hospital.

Participants

From a large clinical registry, we randomly selected 428 patients to have the opportunity to receive the intervention.

Interventions

Medical weight management tools-partial meal replacements, recreation center vouchers, pharmacotherapy, commercial weight loss program vouchers, and a group behavioral weight loss program-for

SUBMITTER: Saxon DR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6848318 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature