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. 2024 May 7;2024(5):CD009531. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009531.pub3

Nicole 2018.

Study name Interactive Obesity Treatment Approach (iOTA) for obesity prevention in Serious Mental Illness (iOTA‐SMI)
Methods Setting: not specified (US)
Allocation: randomised controlled trial
Masking: none
Participants Diagnosis: a diagnosis of a severe and persistent mental illness
n = 30
Age: 18 to 60
Interventions An interactive obesity treatment approach (iOTA‐SMI)
Control: health education control receive monthly in‐person health coaching visits over 16 weeks, monthly counselling on energy balance, physical activity and nutrition
Comparison: iOTA‐SMI vs health education control, a 16‐week programme. They will receive an assessment of individual behaviour risks, participate in collaborative goal‐setting with a health coach and use an interactive text system that will provide ongoing support and self‐monitoring of behaviour change goals.
Outcomes Primary outcome:
  • Change in body mass index (BMI)

Starting date July 2018
Contact information nicolg@wustl.edu
Notes One aspect of the intervention is described as 'collaborative goal setting' (references other studies of collaborative care)
Study due to end June 2020
Author contacted twice in October 2020 ‐ no response

CC: collaborative care; CGI‐BP: Clinical Global Impression ‐ Bipolar disorder; CGI‐SCH: Clinical Global Impression – Schizophrenia; CVD: cardiovascular disease; DSM‐IV/DSM‐V: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, version 4/5; GP: general practitioner; ICD: International Classification of Diseases; SMI: severe mental illness; VAMC: Veterans Administration Medical Centre