64
Participants
Start Date
January 17, 2019
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2021
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2021
Episodic Future Thinking
Participants will practice using these cues when making decisions about health choices. Participants will implement EFT while using The Traffic Light Diet, The Traffic Light Activity Program, and a variety of behavioral techniques including stimulus control, self-monitoring, goal setting, problem solving, resetting rewarding mechanisms by reducing need for immediate gratification, finding behavioral substitutes for highly reinforcing food.
Daily Check in
Participants will be asked to access the electronic app at the same rate as the experimental group (e.g. daily). Participants will receive behavioral weight loss treatment including The Traffic Light Diet, The Traffic Light Activity Program, and a variety of behavioral techniques including stimulus control, self-monitoring, goal setting, problem solving, and finding behavioral substitutes for highly reinforcing food.
University at Buffalo, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Buffalo
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
OTHER
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
NIH
State University of New York at Buffalo
OTHER