Effectiveness of Online Visit Compared With In-person Clinic Visit on Weight Loss

Novindiet Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: self-directed group; Behavioral: Clinic visit group; Behavioral: online visit group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03171961

ND-207

Details and patient eligibility

About

Online visit and online counseling via telemedicine technology is a new service for obese people who wish to lose weight but because of their active lifestyle and time limitation cannot come to clinic. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy this technology-based intervention on weight loss in obese and overweight female adults.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Must be female
• Must be 18-45 years of age.
• Must have Body mass index (BMI) between 27-35 kg/ m².
• Must be able to have moderate exercise.
• Must be interested to have weight loss.
• Have access to the internet via broad- band ADSL or Mobile 4G

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy or lactation during the previous 6 months, or planned pregnancy in the next six months.
• Taking medications that could affect metabolism or change body weight.
• Report heart problems, chest pain, and cancer within the last five years.
• Smoking
• Menopause
• Diagnosis of any chronic disease such as fatty liver, cancer, chemo/radio therapy, heart disease, immune compromised conditions, abnormal thyroid hormone level.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

online visit group

Experimental group

Description:

in online visit group , subjects has online visit with dietitian every 2 weeks

Treatment:

Behavioral: online visit group

clinic visit group

Experimental group

Description:

clinic visit group ,subject has every 2 weeks in person visit at clinic

Treatment:

Behavioral: Clinic visit group

self-directed group

Experimental group

Description:

self-directed group ,subjects receive nutritional information via web and their energy needs for weight loss

Treatment:

Behavioral: self-directed group