Effectiveness of Brief Counseling for Weight Management

描述(研究人员摘要)：本研究的总体目标是 评估针对管理层的简短咨询会议的有效性 肥胖症。干预措施为：治疗A：奥利司他12个月门诊 就诊(不接受认知行为疗法[CBT])；治疗B：12个月简报 个别CBT咨询疗程；治疗C：奥利斯特12个月简报 单独的CBT咨询课程。拟议的研究将招募和 将246名肥胖(BMI 30到40)的成年女性和男性随机分配到三组 一年的条件。具体目标1是比较 治疗组通过体重指数和体重的变化进行评估。具体目标2是 比较其他健康结果的变化(血脂、血压和 葡萄糖)。次要假设将包括对主效应和 出席，药片计数，饮食回忆和运动回忆和维护 减肥。研究人员认为，这项研究意义重大，因为 它将测试一种肥胖治疗模式(简短的个人CBT咨询) 它可以快速方便地应用于初选患者 护理环境。

DESCRIPTION (investigator's abstract): The overall objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of brief counseling sessions for the management of obesity. The interventions are: Treatment A: orlistat + 12 monthly clinic visits (no cognitive behavior therapy [CBT]); Treatment B: 12 monthly brief individual CBT counseling sessions; Treatment C: orlistat + 12 monthly brief individual CBT counseling sessions. The proposed study will recruit and randomly assign 246 obese (BMI 30 to 40) adult women and men to the three conditions for one year. Specific Aim 1 is to compare the effectiveness of the treatment groups as assessed by changes in BMI and weight. Specific Aim 2 is to compare changes in other health outcomes (blood lipids, blood pressure and glucose). Secondary hypotheses will include examination of main effects and attendance, pill counts, dietary recall and exercise recall and maintenance of weight losses. The investigators believe that this study is significant because it will test a model for obesity treatment (brief individual CBT counseling) that can be applied expeditiously and conveniently to patients in a primary care setting.