ROBUST
Reducing Obesity Using Social Ties Program (ROBUST)
Phillips E, Potter C, Poole J, Lewis A, Nahid M, Christos P, Hootman K, Winston G, de la Haye K
This study investigates how positive and negative social network processes influence weight loss among individuals participating in a 24-week, evidence-based lifestyle intervention modeled after the Diabetes Prevention Program. The protocol provides an example of utilizing the narrative interface as a visualization tool for a participant's social network, displaying alter edges, group and individual alter attribute variables, and allowing for dynamic repositioning of nodes to elicit qualitative data about the network.
What this protocol demonstrates
An example of utilizing the narrative interface as a visualization tool for a participant's social network, displaying alter edges, group and individual alter attribute variables, and allowing for dynamic repositioning of nodes to elicit qualitative data about the network.
Study details
- Field(s)
- Public healthMedicine
- Population
- Black and Hispanic adults with obesity
- Edge generation
- SociogramDyad census
- Uses rosters
- No
- Study PI
- PI: Erica Phillips
- Protocol contact
- Kayla de la Haye, [email protected]
- Grant number
- R01DK135949
- Trial registration
- https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06335810
- DOI / publication
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318990
- Date added
- October 22, 2025
Cite this publication
Phillips, E., Potter, C., Poole, J., Lewis, A., Nahid, M., Christos, P., Hootman, K., Winston, G., & de la Haye, K. (2025). Reducing Obesity Using Social Ties (ROBUST): Protocol for a randomized control trial of a social network lifestyle intervention. PLoS ONE, 20(4), e0318990. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318990
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