A Randomized Controlled Pilot Study of a Patient-Initiated Approach to Increasing Weight Communication in Primary Care

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  • participants needed
    60
  • sponsor
    Drexel University
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Updated on 5 August 2020
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Summary

This study tests the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of using a brief pamphlet in the primary care waiting room focused on promoting patient-initiated weight-related discussions in primary care appointments.

Description

Obesity is a chronic and complex disease that many national and professional organizations recommend be discussed frequently in primary care. However, rates of weight-related communication in primary care are suboptimal. When patients and physicians communicate about weight (defined as usage of any the 5Asask, assess, advise, agree, and/or assistin a weight-related conversation), patients are more likely to improve dietary habits, demonstrate more motivation for health behavior change, attempt weight loss treatment, and lose more weight as compared to patients who do not engage in weight-related communication with their physicians. Interventions have attempted to increase the rates of weight-related communication in primary care. However, they have focused solely on physicians and have only yielded modest efficacy. Intervention with patients on proposed patient-related barriers may be key to improving the rate of weight-related communication in primary care. The waiting room prior to appointments is an underutilized intervention setting. Prior waiting room interventions have shown promising results for increasing health communication between patients and physicians. However, no prior study has focused on weight-related communication. Thus, this study aims to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an experiential pamphlet delivered in the waiting room targeting patient-related barriers to weight communication.

Details
Condition Health Communication, Obesity, Obesity, Primary Care
Age 18years - 100years
Treatment Brief waiting room pamphlet
Clinical Study IdentifierNCT04486235
SponsorDrexel University
Last Modified on5 August 2020

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Inclusion Criteria

Present for an appointment at the Family Medicine Office
Indicate that they can speak and read English
Indicate that their Shape is > or = 5 on measure (Stunkard, Srensen, & Schulsinger, 1983)
Indicate that they are 18 years or older

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