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Study protocol for the 10 Top Tips (10TT) Trial: Randomised controlled trial of habit-based advice for weight control in general practice

BACKGROUND: Primary care is the first port of call for advice about weight control. There is hence a need for simple, effective interventions that can be delivered without specialist skills. We have developed such an intervention; the 10 Top Tips (10TT). This intervention was effective with respect...

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Autores principales: Beeken, Rebecca J, Croker, Helen, Morris, Stephen, Leurent, Baptiste, Omar, Rumana, Nazareth, Irwin, Wardle, Jane
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22898059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-667
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author Beeken, Rebecca J
Croker, Helen
Morris, Stephen
Leurent, Baptiste
Omar, Rumana
Nazareth, Irwin
Wardle, Jane
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Morris, Stephen
Leurent, Baptiste
Omar, Rumana
Nazareth, Irwin
Wardle, Jane
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description BACKGROUND: Primary care is the first port of call for advice about weight control. There is hence a need for simple, effective interventions that can be delivered without specialist skills. We have developed such an intervention; the 10 Top Tips (10TT). This intervention was effective with respect to weight loss in a volunteer population, but has yet to be tested in primary care. The aim of this trial is therefore to test the effectiveness of the 10TT intervention in primary care, incorporating clinical outcomes and health economic analyses. METHODS/DESIGN: The trial is a two-arm, individually-randomised, controlled trial in obese (BMI ≥ 30) adults (n = 520) in primary care, comparing weight loss in patients receiving the 10TT intervention with weight loss in a control group of patients receiving usual care. The intervention is based on habit formation theory, using written materials to take people through a set of simple weight control behaviours with strategies to make them habitual; an approach that could make it more successful than others in establishing long-term behaviour change. Patients will be recruited from 14 General Practices across England. Randomisation will be through telephoning a central randomisation service using a computer-generated list of random numbers. Patients are followed up at 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months. The primary outcome is weight loss at 3 months, with assessment by a health professional who is blind to group allocation. Other follow-ups will be un-blinded. We will examine whether weight loss is maintained up to 24 months. We will also assess changes in the automaticity of the 10TT target behaviours and improvement in clinical markers for potential co-morbidities. Finally, we will undertake a full economic evaluation to establish cost-effectiveness in the NHS context. DISCUSSION: If proven to be effective when delivered through primary care, 10TT could make a highly cost-effective contribution to improvements in population health. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN16347068
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spelling pubmed-34907232012-11-07 Study protocol for the 10 Top Tips (10TT) Trial: Randomised controlled trial of habit-based advice for weight control in general practice Beeken, Rebecca J Croker, Helen Morris, Stephen Leurent, Baptiste Omar, Rumana Nazareth, Irwin Wardle, Jane BMC Public Health Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Primary care is the first port of call for advice about weight control. There is hence a need for simple, effective interventions that can be delivered without specialist skills. We have developed such an intervention; the 10 Top Tips (10TT). This intervention was effective with respect to weight loss in a volunteer population, but has yet to be tested in primary care. The aim of this trial is therefore to test the effectiveness of the 10TT intervention in primary care, incorporating clinical outcomes and health economic analyses. METHODS/DESIGN: The trial is a two-arm, individually-randomised, controlled trial in obese (BMI ≥ 30) adults (n = 520) in primary care, comparing weight loss in patients receiving the 10TT intervention with weight loss in a control group of patients receiving usual care. The intervention is based on habit formation theory, using written materials to take people through a set of simple weight control behaviours with strategies to make them habitual; an approach that could make it more successful than others in establishing long-term behaviour change. Patients will be recruited from 14 General Practices across England. Randomisation will be through telephoning a central randomisation service using a computer-generated list of random numbers. Patients are followed up at 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months. The primary outcome is weight loss at 3 months, with assessment by a health professional who is blind to group allocation. Other follow-ups will be un-blinded. We will examine whether weight loss is maintained up to 24 months. We will also assess changes in the automaticity of the 10TT target behaviours and improvement in clinical markers for potential co-morbidities. Finally, we will undertake a full economic evaluation to establish cost-effectiveness in the NHS context. DISCUSSION: If proven to be effective when delivered through primary care, 10TT could make a highly cost-effective contribution to improvements in population health. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ISRCTN16347068 BioMed Central 2012-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3490723/ /pubmed/22898059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-667 Text en Copyright ©2012 Beeken et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Leurent, Baptiste
Omar, Rumana
Nazareth, Irwin
Wardle, Jane
Study protocol for the 10 Top Tips (10TT) Trial: Randomised controlled trial of habit-based advice for weight control in general practice
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3490723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22898059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-667
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