Preventing Type 2 Diabetes in Black Emergent Adult

Part of paid clinical trials in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Sponsor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Study ID
NCT06848244
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
FEMALE
Age
18 Years - 25 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Appetite Awareness Training (AAT) — BEHAVIORAL
    Partcipants will receive the AAT delivered as 16 core sessions over six months as well as six maintenance sessions over the course of 12 months.
  • Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) — BEHAVIORAL
    Partcipants will receive the DPP delivered as 16 core sessions over six months as well as six maintenance sessions over the course of 12 months.

Study Details

Black Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes, with nearly double the rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), compared to non-Hispanic White adults. Though numerous factors affect these disparities, one modifiable risk factor may be that of binge eating (BE), which increases risk for binge-eating disorder (BED), which is associated with severe obesity, and often precedes a T2DM diagnosis, beginning in childhood or adolescence. Nearly 30% of Black women with obesity report binge eating episodes. Furthermore, given that binge and overeating may disparately increase the odds of obesity in Black adults (15-fold increase vs. 6-fold increase in White adults), reducing this behavior will be critical to prevent continued disparities in T2DM diagnosis. Given that Black women have the highest rates of obesity in the nation (57%), report disparate rates of weight gain between young adulthood and mid adulthood, and report disparate rates of emotional eating in adolescence, which is a risk factor for BE, one pathway to reducing disparities in T2DM risk in Black women may be to reduce binge eating and prevent weight gain in emerging adulthood (ages 18-25).

Key Dates

Start date
Jun 30, 2025
Status verified
Jul 2025
Primary completion
Dec 31, 2030
Completion
Dec 31, 2030

Study Design

Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SCREENING

Arms

  • Experimental: Appetite Awareness Training (AAT) and Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
    Participants are randomized into the AAT and DPP groups and receive content from both programs for 12 months.
  • Experimental: Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) only
    Participants are randomized into the DPP group and will be able to access the program's content.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in number of Binge Eating Episodes from Baseline to Month 6 [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
UNC-Chapel HillChapel HillNorth Carolina27599
Rachel Goode, PhD,MPH,LCSW
Rachel Goode, PhD,MPH,LCSW (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)

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