Weight Loss Intervention in Long-Haul Truck Drivers: A Pilot Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 13
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Measured Weight Loss from baseline to the end of the study
研究概览
简要总结
Being obese can be a risk factor for many health problems, including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, low back pain, heart attacks and some cancers. Truckers, who are integral to our economy, face challenges that put them at increased likelihood of being obese. The investigators want to come up with a program to help drivers get to a healthy weight and stay there.
The WHEEL pilot study is a 12 week weight loss intervention in long-haul commercial truck drivers. The study involves two visits to the University of Utah's Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, one at the start of the study and a second one at the end of the study. Both visits include a general health history questionnaire, a 24-hour diet recall questionnaire, anthropometric measurements, as well as an assessment of blood pressure, hemoglobin A1c, and a cholesterol and lipid panel. Each truck driver is assigned a health coach who helps the driver create and achieve three health goals.
The health coach works with the driver to set individualized goals specific to weight loss, and contacts the driver weekly to check in and tweak goals as needed.
Drivers are also compensated for their participation in the study and get to keep all of the intervention materials that the investigators give them. All that the researchers ask is that they try their best to have a healthier lifestyle and give us feedback on what they liked and didn't like in the study.
详细描述
The investigators recruited 13 truckers based in Utah's Wasatch Front (population 2.2 Million) who expressed interest in participating in a weight loss intervention when they participated in the cross-sectional truck driver study (current enrollment, n= 817 truckers). Other options the investigators may pursue to maintain enrollment include enrolling participants directly through local trucking companies. Participants will be screened for eligibility based on
- Age > 21
- BMI > 30 kg/m2
- No reported unstable chronic disease
Interstate truckers are required to be at least 21 years old. Participants will not be enrolled in the intervention until they complete the physical assessment component of the baseline visit that includes blood pressure, lipids, and HbA1c. Individuals who do not meet the established medical guidelines and regulations of the FMCSA will be excluded. Those individuals will be advised to follow-up for care with their personal physicians, and/or will be referred to a primary care clinic.
Health coaches will have at least weekly contact with participants to discuss individual goals and behavior change. Motivational messages will be delivered in addition to weekly content via text messages and/or emails. Research suggests that individuals who begin losing weight quickly are more successful at weight loss and maintaining loss, therefore, after 3 weeks individuals who have not lost at least 3 pounds will receive additional contacts with health coaches to address slow rate of weight loss. Individual Competitions surrounding successful healthy behaviors of Truckers will be conducted every other week. Winning behaviors will be shared with other participants by email, text, phone calls, blogs and/or other distance friendly format to both engage drivers and model successful peer behaviors.
This is a study of weight loss intervention for long-haul commercial truck drivers who face unusual challenges to a healthy lifestyle while working. Participants (n=13) will be long-haul commercial truck drivers with a BMI over 30 kg/m2. Due to licensing issues, all interstate truck drivers are required to be at least 21 years old (US DOT, FMCSA), and thus proposed study participants will be at least 21 years old.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 21 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Measured Weight Loss from baseline to the end of the study
时间窗: 12 weeks
Difference in measured weight from baseline to the end of the study.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Matthew Thiese
Assistant Professor
University of Utah