Study design
weight loss
This was a single-blind, 2-arm randomized controlled pilot study designed to determine the feasibility of a 15-week telephone-based weight loss in rural populations with overweight/obesity. Briefly, feasibility in this study was defined as ≥80% of the participants completing the online follow-up surveys, and acceptable adherence was defined as the percentage of participants in the weight loss intervention group engaged in ≥75% of the weekly sessions. This study was approved by The Ohio State University Institutional Review Board (2021C0033) and registered on ClinicalTrial.gov (NCT05040152).