Education Session to Improve Program Adherence

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Management

Treatments: Behavioral: one-hour dietary self-monitoring tool education session

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06428695

IRB00110851

Details and patient eligibility

About

To examine is user knowledge of a dietary self-monitoring (DSM) calorie tracking app and improving patient adherence to daily caloric food intake to help with weight loss.

Full description

The research question guiding this project is: In adults with a BMI greater than 25 kg/m2, does a 1-hour education session on using a calorie-tracking application improve adherence to a calorie-restricted weight management program over eight weeks? This project aimed to increase patient knowledge with the DSM tool. To Increase adherence to the calorie-restricted diet program and, finally, to increase weight loss in the program participants of the 8-week program

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age and older with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 25 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than18 years of age with a Body Mass Index (BMI) less than 25 kg/m2

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

dietary self-monitoring tool education session

Experimental group

Description:

access the impact of a one-hour dietary self-monitoring tool education session for participants in a calorie-restricted weight management program on their knowledge of the use of the tool to help them adhere to a calorie-restricted weight management program

Treatment:

Behavioral: one-hour dietary self-monitoring tool education session