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title: Virtual Weight Management Shared Medical Visit
nct_id: NCT04784338
overall_status: WITHDRAWN
phase: NA
sponsor: Boston Medical Center
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Metabolic Syndrome
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ct_last_update_post_date: 2021-08-26
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# Virtual Weight Management Shared Medical Visit

**Official Title:** A Virtual Weight Management Shared Medical Appointment: a Feasibility Study

**NCT ID:** [NCT04784338](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04784338)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** WITHDRAWN
- **Why Stopped:** The investigators decided not to implement the research but instead to conduct a quality improvement project to focus on the practice of shared medical appointments (SMAs) and how to optimize them for clinical practice.
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 0
- **Lead Sponsor:** Boston Medical Center
- **Conditions:** Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity
- **Start Date:** 2021-08
- **Completion Date:** 2022-10
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2021-08-26

## Brief Summary

Culinary medicine has emerged which provides the practical application of nutrition education through experiential learning. Studies have shown that patients with metabolic syndrome who underwent a series of classes that featured nutrition recommendations and cooking classes had weight loss, and improved cardiac health and blood sugar management.

Given the increasing focus on providing remote experiences to minimize contact and risk of infection with Sars-COV2, this pilot study at Boston Medical Center (BMC) will integrate a physician consultation, interactive didactic presentations, nutritious cooking and mind- body exercises. Patients with obesity and metabolic syndrome can attend a virtual shared medical visit series co-taught by a registered dietician and chef and an endocrinologist and weight management specialist. Data will be collected in the form of surveys, phone interviews, chart review, and home monitoring to test both the feasibility of running such an intervention virtually and to explore whether attending this one month program with weekly remote classes/visits improves vitals including weight and blood blood pressure and other small habit changes in patients.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 21 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** No

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Inclusion Criteria:

* English speaking
* BMI =\> 30
* Must have documented measured blood pressure, weight, height in the 12 months prior to the intervention
* Enrolled in Boston Medical Center's (BMC's) Food Pantry Program

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with advanced dementia or uncontrolled psychiatric disease
* Uncontrolled medical illness including severe hypertension, recent acute coronary syndrome, active malignancy or other condition that would make the subject unable to complete the study procedures
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## Arms

- **Virtual shared teaching kitchen program** (EXPERIMENTAL) — Participants will participate in virtual shared medical appointments that utilize the teaching kitchen

## Interventions

- **Virtual shared medical visit** (BEHAVIORAL) — a shared medical visit done by zoom in a group, 1.5 hours
- **Nutritional classes** (BEHAVIORAL) — A cooking class done by the teaching kitchen demonstrating cooking skills

## Primary Outcomes

- **Recruitment rates** _(time frame: 1 month)_ — Recruitment rates will be calculated by taking the number of participants enrolled over the number eligible to participate in the program
- **Retention of participants** _(time frame: 1 month)_ — Attendance at each of the sessions will be documented to assess retention of participants.
- **Facilitators for program participation** _(time frame: 1 month)_ — An investigator created questionnaire will be used to collect information about facilitators for program participation
- **Barriers to program participation** _(time frame: 1 month)_ — An investigator created questionnaire will be used to collect information about barriers to program participation

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Change in knowledge of healthy foods** _(time frame: baseline, 1 month)_
- **Change in nutritional food intake behaviours** _(time frame: baseline, 1 month)_
- **Change in blood pressure** _(time frame: baseline, 1 month)_
- **Change in fasting blood glucose level** _(time frame: baseline, 1 month)_
- **Change in body mass index [BMI]** _(time frame: baseline, 1 month)_

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