Weight Loss for Prediabetes Using Episodic Future Thinking

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

64

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 17, 2019

Primary Completion Date

June 30, 2021

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2021

Conditions
PreDiabetes
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

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.

Trial Locations (2)

14214

University at Buffalo, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Buffalo

24016

Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Tech Carilion, Roanoke

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

OTHER

collaborator

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

NIH

lead

State University of New York at Buffalo

OTHER

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