Effectiveness of Smartphone Application for Weight Loss

Riphah International University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Loss

Treatments: Other: Paper diary group; Other: MyNetDiary app group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05931146

REC/01408 Maria Mishal

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is

To determine the effectiveness of smartphone application for weight loss in healthy female adults.

To determine the association between fitness application usage and physical activity behavior of the healthy female adults.

Full description

Obesity has turned into a significant, rising well-being epidemic around the world. Doing almost no physical work has been connected with chronic weakness results and diminished personal satisfaction in adulthood. It has been perceived that innovation can uphold wellbeing upgrades around the world. The applications that target wellbeing advancement have turned into a focal piece of individuals' lives and have exhibited enormous expansions being used. Proper evidence behind usage of smart phone application for weight loss is sparse and is based on different clinical experiences and a smaller number of studies with limited methodological design. This study will contribute to describing the effectiveness of smartphone application for weight loss in female adults as well as to determine the association between fitness application usage and physical activity behavior.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult females
• Age between 18-40 years.
• Individuals with BMI ≥ 25

Exclusion criteria

• Pathological conditions affecting any system
• Suffering from recent unhealed MSK injury/Trauma

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

MyNetDiary app group

Experimental group

Description:

Smart phone application MyNetDiary will be used to track calories and exercise log. The intervention period would last for 3 months.

Treatment:

Other: MyNetDiary app group

Paper diary group

Experimental group

Description:

This group will follow paper diary to track calories and exercise log for 3 months.

Treatment:

Other: Paper diary group