Obesity Treatment Enhanced With Working Memory Training

NCT02529397 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: CHRBBS: 15-647
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 37
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will examine the effects of providing subjects who have attention deficits, with or without a formal diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with Working Memory computerized training and explore whether this training is a feasible way to help them better engage in a weight loss treatment program, thereby enhancing weight loss results. Half of the participants will receive five weeks of online adaptive WM training concurrently while attending an in-person 24-week behavioral weight management program and half will receive five weeks of a non-adaptive form of cognitive training concurrently while attending a 24-week behavioral weight management program in person.

Conditions

ADHD; Weight Loss

Keywords

Working Memory Training, Weight Loss,

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Weight

  Participants weight at baseline will be compared to their weight at 24 weeks at the completion of the study.

  24 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Adaptive Working Memory Training

EXPERIMENTAL

The experimental group will receive working memory training through a commercial computerized program: five weeks of adaptive working memory training concurrently with a behavioral weight loss program. Adaptive working memory training becomes progressively more challenging depending on an individual's performance on a given task. They will attend weekly classes of a behavioral weight loss program.

Behavioral: Adaptive Working Memory Training

Non-adaptive Working Memory Training

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

The control group will receive five weeks of non-adaptive (placebo) cognitive training concurrent with the identical behavioral weight loss program as in the experimental group. Non-adaptive cognitive training remains at a constant level.

Behavioral: Non-adaptive cognitive training

Interventions

Adaptive Working Memory Training BEHAVIORAL

Participants will train for 30-40 minutes per day, five days per week at home for 5 weeks using an adaptive cognitive training program which becomes increasingly challenging as the participant masters each level. Behavioral classes will teach the principles of weight management and exercise.

Adaptive Working Memory Training

Non-adaptive cognitive training BEHAVIORAL

Participants will train for 30-40 minutes per day, five days per week at home for 5 weeks using a non-adaptive cognitive training program. Behavioral classes will teach the principles of weight management and exercise.

Non-adaptive Working Memory Training

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Must score 4 or higher on the ASRS v. 1.1
• Must live within 45 minutes driving distance from UVM campus
• Must be able to exercise
• Must have a computer with internet access and ability to utilize flash
• Must be 18 or older

You may not qualify if:

• Health issues that preclude exercise
• use of medications that interfere with the ability to lose weight
• vacation longer than two weeks
• current participation in another weight loss program
• reside more than 45 minutes from UVM campus in Burlington
• no internet access, no home computer, or computer cannot use flash

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Vermont: lead

Study Sites (1)

Behavioral Weight Management Program/Univ of Vermont

Burlington, Vermont, 05405, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Weight Loss

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Mental Disorders; Body Weight Changes; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Doris Ogden, MS

  University of Vermont

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor and Chair

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 18, 2015
• First Posted: August 20, 2015
• Study Start: October 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: May 1, 2016
• Study Completion: May 1, 2016
• Last Updated: October 25, 2016

Record last verified: 2016-10

Locations

US (1)