Effectiveness of Brief Counseling for Weight Management

描述（研究者摘要）：本研究的总体目的是 评估为管理层提供简短咨询的有效性 肥胖症。治疗A：奥利司他+ 12个月门诊 访视（无认知行为治疗[CBT]）;治疗B：12个月一次 个体CBT咨询课程;治疗C：奥利司他+ 12个月简报 个人CBT咨询会议。拟议的研究将招募和 随机将246名肥胖（BMI 30至40）的成年男女分配到三个研究小组， 一年的条件。具体目标1是比较 通过BMI和体重的变化评估治疗组。具体目标二是 比较其他健康结果（血脂、血压和 葡萄糖）。次要假设将包括检查主要效应， 出勤率，药丸计数，饮食回忆和运动回忆以及维持 体重减轻研究人员认为，这项研究意义重大，因为 它将测试肥胖治疗的模型（简短的个人CBT咨询） 可以快速方便地应用于初级 护理设置。

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.