A web-based intervention to increase weight loss treatment initiation: results of a cluster randomized feasibility and acceptability trial.

ABSTRACT: Evidence-based behavioral weight loss treatment is under-utilized. To increase initiation of treatment, we developed a single-session, online, primary care-based intervention ("mobilization tool"). We evaluated the mobilization tool's acceptability for primary care patients with obesity, trial design feasibility, and signal of an effect of the tool on treatment initiation. In this cluster randomized feasibility trial, primary care providers (PCPs) were randomized to a mobilization tool or comparator tool arm. Patients with obesity and a scheduled appointment with a randomized PCP were assigned to complete the mobilization or comparator tool prior to their appointment. The online mobilization tool asks patients to answer questions about a variety of weight-related topics and then provides a

SUBMITTER: McVay MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7877306 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature