SMARTer Weight Loss Management

What to expect

No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.

What participation involves

Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.

Compensation

Not stated

• Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
• Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
• Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
• Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.

About this study

The SMARTer trial will be a three-arm, randomized controlled non-inferiority trial that compares the optimized, adaptive SMARTer intervention, fixed DPP, and Self-Guided (Control). The trial will address whether a scalable, stepped-care intervention can stand up to gold-standard DPP by achieving comparable weight loss at a lower cost. Alongside evaluation of clinical non-inferiority, a comprehensive economic evaluation will inform relative affordability. Cost information is important to inform treatment policy and change standard of care, but is sorely lacking for behavioral interventions. The SMARTer intervention reduces costs by initially offering minimal intervention to all and stepping up to offer more costly treatment components only to non-responders who fail to attain the target weight loss. A rigorous economic evaluation planned and designed alongside the SMARTer trial will provide an accurate, robust head-to-head comparison of costs, cost-effectiveness, and projected lifetime health care costs between the three arms.

Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.

Eligibility

Study sites (1)