Health-Smart for Weight Loss at UF Jax Clinics
Obesity

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Obesity focused on measuring Women's health
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- African American/black
- Female
- Age 21 years or older
- BMI range ≥ 30kg/m2 (5) active patient of a participating clinic (i.e., at least 2 clinic visits in the last 24 months)
- Willing and ready to change one's diet and physical activity level
- Willing to be randomized to either of the two weight-loss maintenance intervention groups
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any serious medical condition that likely affects weight, such as end stage renal disease or cancer
- Prior bariatric surgery within the last 5 years or plans for this surgery in the next 2 years
- Use of prescription or over-the-counter weight-loss medication within the last 6 months
- Pregnant or plan to get pregnant within the next 2 years
- Plan to relocate from the area within the next 2 years
- Having had unintentional weight loss (>or = to 5% of body weight) within 6 months prior to enrollment
- Taking a daily dose of oral corticosteroid antipsychotic (clozapine, olanzapine, or risperidone) for less than 6 months
Sites / Locations
- UF Health Jacksonville Primary Care network
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Patient Centered Culturally Sensitive WLM
Standard Behavioral WLM
This program is designed to enable physicians to: (a) talk with their patients about their weight, weight loss goals, goal barriers, strategies for overcoming these barriers, and deliver this talk in patient-centered, culturally sensitive ways, (b) assist their patients with engaging in self-identified strategies for achieving and sustaining their self selected goals for weight loss and overall health, (c) be knowledgeable about health-smart behaviors, (d) use behaviors and display attitudes in physician-patient interactions with patients that are provider cultural sensitivity indicators in published literature, and (e) say and display behaviors and attitudes that patients identified as important when discussing obesity and losing weight.
This program is designed to enable physicians to: (a) implement motivational interviewing approaches when talking with their patients about their weight loss goals and behavioral strategies to achieve these goals, (b) become knowledgeable about empirically supported behavioral change principles that have been used to help patients maintain weight loss in previous interventions, (c) communicate how to use these empirically supported behavioral change principles to have patients initiate or maintain their self-selected health-smart goals related to weight loss and/or weight loss maintenance, and (d) use motivational interviewing approaches to communicate empathy and understanding with patients who are struggling to maintain their weight loss and/or accomplish a behavioral goal.