Analysis of De-identified Data From Commercially-available App Lose It!

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight and Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Lose It! commercial weight loss app

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03136692

Lose It! data analysis

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study team analyzed de-identified user data provided by the commercial app Lose It!, an entity of FitNow, Inc.

Full description

The study team analyzed de-identified user data collected by Lose It! for the purposes of investigating behavioral aspects of weight loss and maintenance, including engagement with the platform; user-reported data on diet, exercise, and other behaviors; data generated by Lose It! describing macronutrient or total calorie intake; periodicity of weight-related actions; user-reported demographic information; and any data from linked applications within Lose It!. All data was anonymized and exchanged as limited data sets.

Enrollment: 7,007 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• New app users located in the U.S. and Canada, between 18 and 80 years of age, that are overweight (25 < BMI < 30) or obese (BMI > 30), who actively used the app each month from January to May of 2016, defined as users who logged food at least 8 times during the first or second half of each month (January, February, March, April and May).

Exclusion criteria