611
Participants
Start Date
October 31, 2012
Primary Completion Date
November 30, 2016
Study Completion Date
November 30, 2016
Usual Care
Standard care
Brief Physician Counseling
Primary Care Physician (PCP) will review a goal setting worksheet for weight loss with the participant and then collaboratively set a goal for weight loss.
Referral and access to an internet weight control program
Participants will receive a login and password for the weight loss website. The website will encourage patients to set a new weight goal every 3 months and work towards a total weight loss goal of 10%. Patients will also receive an email prompt each week alerting them to new content and reminding them to check-in to the website to report their weight, intake and activity.
Brief follow up email notes from PCPs
Patients will receive a biweekly email from their primary care physician on how they are doing with their weight loss.
Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
NIH
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
OTHER
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
OTHER
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
OTHER