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CompletedNCT03188094Updated Sep 24, 2025Results posted

Integrated Community-Clinical Linkage Model to Promote Weight Loss Among South Asians With Pre-Diabetes

An interventional study of CHW-Led Health Coaching and EHR Alerts in Pre Diabetes and Weight Loss, sponsored by NYU Langone Health. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 21 Years to 75 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-09-24.

Sponsored by NYU Langone Health · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
974
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
21 Years to 75 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The proposed study will inform efforts to prevent diabetes and promote weight loss in a high-risk population and generate a reproducible, scalable, and sustainable model for use with other insurer groups and clinical settings that work in immigrant populations with a high burden of chronic disease.

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The study "Integrated Community-Clinical Linkage Model to Promote Weight Loss among South Asians with Pre-Diabetes" aims to test the effectiveness and assess the implementation process of an integrated intervention to support weight loss for South Asian patients at-risk for type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in primary care settings. The integrated intervention involves:

  1. An electronic health record (EHR) intervention for primary care providers (PCPs) utilizing embedded alerts to increase screening and identification of South Asian patients at-risk for T2DM with BMI >23 kg/m2 and registries to track outcomes: and
  2. Registry-driven community health worker (CHW)-led health coaching for patients. Using a stepped-wedge design, we will implement the study in 25 New York City PCP sites enrolling 2,840 South Asian patients at- risk for T2DM.
  3. Provider Surveys (n=40) to capture data on satisfaction with workflow before and after intervention, information sources for EHR-CHW initiatives before and after intervention, acceptability of and satisfaction with the integrated EHR-CHW intervention, and barriers and facilitators of point-of-care use of the tools.
  4. Key Informant Interviews (n=35) with physician champions at each site and/or administrator of each site, Health first representatives, and CHWs. At baseline, the interviews will be incorporated into the workflow analysis to assess current satisfaction and usage of EHR and health coaching. At follow-up, the interviews will assess barriers and facilitators to the implementation and adoption process of the integrated EHR-CHW intervention, fidelity to the interventions, and to solicit recommendations for the replication and scalability of the intervention to other sites and insurer organizations.
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Conditions studied

  • Pre Diabetes
  • Weight Loss
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In context

Glucose Intolerance

778 studies on the registry are indexed under Glucose Intolerance; 129 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 974 is above the median of 60 across 645 interventional studies indexed under Glucose Intolerance.

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Lead sponsor

NYU Langone Health is the lead sponsor of 1,391 studies on the registry; 254 are open to participants now.

Of its 227 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 191 (84%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
21 Years to 75 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • self identify as South Asian;
  • are at least 21 years of age and younger than age 75,
  • had an appointment with a physician or mid-level clinician for routine non-emergent primary care in the last 12 months;
  • have a BMI of >23; and
  • have incident pre-diabetes as determined by HbA1c test (last A1c test date in the last 12 months).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Patients under the age of 21 and older than 75 will be excluded.
  • Individuals with a diagnosis of diabetes or pre-diabetes during the 12 months prior to intervention implementation will be excluded.
  • Pregnant women and all visits with an obstetrician gynecologist are excluded.
  • No children or vulnerable subjects will be enrolled in this study.
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
974 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Alert + CHW-Led Coaching

    Participants will receive an alert and registry-driven CHW-led coaching during either the first or second round.

    Behavioral: CHW-Led Health Coaching · Other: EHR Alerts

  • No intervention
    Usual Care - Wait-List Control

    All participants waitlisted during the first round will be randomized to the control group. Control group participants will be offered the full CHW group education sessions during the second round. The control participants will receive usual care during the first round.

Interventions

  • BehavioralCHW-Led Health Coaching

    The CHW intervention includes a protocol that consists of 5 monthly 90-minute group health education sessions, providing the tools and strategies to prevent diabetes.

  • OtherEHR Alerts

    Primary care providers (PCP) treating patients in the intervention group will receive embedded EHR alerts to increase screening and identification of South Asian patients at-risk for T2DM with BMI \>23 kg/m2 and registries to track outcomes.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of Participants Who Lost at Least 5% of Body Weight Between Baseline and Month 6

    Weight measured at baseline and 6 month survey via study scale.

    Time frame: Baseline, Month 6

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Results

Posted Sep 24, 2025

Participant flow

Participant flow — Overall Study
MilestoneWaive 1 (10/2018-12/2019) Round 1 Jan-Jun 2019, Round 2 July-Dec 2019Waive 2 (10/2019-12/2020) Round 1 Jan-Jun 2020, Round 2 July-Dec 2020Waive 3 (10/2020-12/2021) Round 1 Jan-Jun 2021, Round 2 July-Dec 2021
Started333294347
Participants started wait-list control round 1, chw round 2164147165
Participants completed wait-list control round 1, chw round 2164147165
Participants started chw round 1, chw round 2169147182
Participants completed chw round 1, chw round 2164147165
Completed328294330
Not completed5017
Withdrew: Screen failure100
Withdrew: Pregnancy300
Withdrew: Ineligible100
Withdrew: Lost to follow-up0017

Outcome measures

PrimaryPercentage of Participants Who Lost at Least 5% of Body Weight Between Baseline and Month 6

Weight measured at baseline and 6 month survey via study scale.

Time frame:
Baseline, Month 6
Reported as:
Number · Percentage of participants
Percentage of Participants Who Lost at Least 5% of Body Weight Between Baseline and Month 6
Percentage of participantsUsual Care - Wait-List ControlAlert + CHW-Led Coaching
Percentage of Participants Who Lost at Least 5% of Body Weight Between Baseline and Month 61119

Adverse events

Collected over 6 months. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
Usual Care - Wait-List Control0/476 (0%)0/476 (0%)0/476 (0%)
Alert + CHW-Led Coaching0/498 (0%)0/498 (0%)0/498 (0%)

Baseline characteristics

Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)Usual Care - Wait-List ControlAlert + CHW-Led CoachingTotal
Mean48.3 ± 11.248.2 ± 11.248.3 ± 11.2
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)Usual Care - Wait-List ControlAlert + CHW-Led CoachingTotal
Female274274548
Male202202404
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Usual Care - Wait-List ControlAlert + CHW-Led CoachingTotal
Hispanic or Latino000
Not Hispanic or Latino476476952
Unknown or Not Reported000
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Usual Care - Wait-List ControlAlert + CHW-Led CoachingTotal
American Indian or Alaska Native000
Asian476476952
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander000
Black or African American000
White000
More than one race000
Unknown or Not Reported000
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(participants)Usual Care - Wait-List ControlAlert + CHW-Led CoachingTotal
United States476476952
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Study locations

1 site
  • NYU Langone Health
    New York, New York 10016, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Gupta A, Wyatt LC, Mammen S, Zanowiak JM, Lim S, Islam NS, Kumar R, Beane S, Gold HT. Cost analysis of implementing a community health worker-led weight reduction randomized-controlled trial among prediabetic south asian patients at primary care sites in NYC. Implement Sci. 2025 Jun 2;20(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s13012-025-01439-2. PubMed 40457309 ↗
  • Hu L, Wyatt LC, Mohsin F, Lim S, Zanowiak J, Mammen S, Hussain S, Ali SH, Onakomaiya D, Belli HM, Aifah A, Islam NS. Characterizing Technology Use and Preferences for Health Communication in South Asian Immigrants With Prediabetes or Diabetes: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study. JMIR Form Res. 2024 Apr 26;8:e52687. doi: 10.2196/52687. PubMed 38669062 ↗
  • Lim S, Wyatt LC, Mammen S, Zanowiak JM, Mohaimin S, Goldfeld KS, Shelley D, Gold HT, Islam NS. The DREAM Initiative: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial testing an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention to promote weight loss among South Asian patients at risk for diabetes. Trials. 2019 Nov 21;20(1):635. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3711-y. PubMed 31752964 ↗

Study documents

  • Protocol and statistical analysis plan · Oct 12, 2021

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 24, 2025, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03188094
Lead sponsor
NYU Langone Health
Collaborators
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 15, 2017
Start date
Dec 17, 2018
Primary completion
Jun 30, 2024
Completion
Jun 30, 2024
Results posted
Sep 24, 2025
Last update
Sep 24, 2025

Study contacts

Nadia Islam
principal investigator · NYU Langone Health

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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