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The ACHIEVE trial enrolled 291 overweight or obese adults from 10 community psychiatric rehabilitation outpatient programs in Maryland. The intervention group received group and individual weight management sessions and group exercise sessions for 18-months and at study end, lost 7 pounds compared to the control group.

The ACHIEVE trial won the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)’s Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award for 2013, and the Society for Clinical Trials Trial of the Year Award for 2013 (). The study was also featured in a .

Wide implementation of healthy weight interventions, like ACHIEVE, are needed for persons with serious mental illness. The ALACRITY core pilot study Adapting an Evidence-Based Weight Loss Intervention and Testing Strategies to Increase Implementation in Community Mental Health Programs will take important steps to translating and scaling up ACHIEVE for broad dissemination. (R01MH080964)

Investigators

• Cheryl Anderson, PhD

• Sarah Casagrande, PhD

• Jeanne Charleston, RN

• Rosa Crum, MD, MHS

• Kevin Frick, PhD

• Joseph Gennusa, PhD, RD, LDN

• Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH, MPH

Publications

• Effects of a behavioral weight loss intervention among people with serious mental illness and diabetes ()

• Effects of a behavioral weight loss intervention in people with serious mental illness: Subgroup analyses from the ACHIEVE trial ()

• Bringing an Effective Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention for People With Serious Mental Illness to Scale ()

• Cardiorespiratory benefits of group exercise among adults with serious mental illness ()

• A cost analysis of implementing a behavioral weight loss intervention in community mental health settings: Results from the ACHIEVE trial ()

• Perceptions of strategies for successful weight loss in persons with serious mental illness participating in a behavioral weight loss intervention: A qualitative study ()

• A Behavioral Weight-Loss Intervention in Persons with Serious Mental Illness ()

• Cigarette smoking and health characteristics in individuals with serious mental illness enrolled in a behavioral weight loss trial ()

• A nutritional intervention to reduce the calorie content of meals served at psychiatric rehabilitation programs ()

• Dietary intake of adults with serious mental illness ()

• Randomized trial of achieving healthy lifestyles in psychiatric rehabilitation: the ACHIEVE trial ()