TARGETing Healthy Weight Loss in the Context of Food Insecurity

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT05601804

Pennington Biomedical Research Center45 enrolled

Overview

This pilot and feasibility study will collect information from food insecure, as well as food secure, women with obesity to detail their desires and needs for healthy weight reduction. Up to 60 women with obesity will be enrolled. Pennington Biomedical Research Center will coordinate this qualitative study and use focus groups discussion to collect formative data.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Obesity Food Insecurity Food Security Body Weight

Eligibility

Sex: FEMALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Willing to provide written informed consent * Female * 18 to 65 years of age * BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 * Ability to read and write using English * Willing to participate in focus group discussions * Willing to be audio/video recorded Exclusion Criteria: * Male * Currently pregnant * BMI \<30 kg/m2

Locations (1)

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Desires and needs for weight loss

Via focus group discussions, we will elicit in-depth information from women with food insecurity and obesity to detail their desires and needs for weight loss.

Time frame: Through study completion, up to 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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