Lifestyle Intervention Program in Overweight Medical Students

New York Institute of Technology

Status

Completed

Conditions

Overweight

Treatments

Behavioral: Lifestyle counseling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03636581

BHS-1333

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be a randomized cross-over design over the course of 2 academic years. 40 subjects -20 overweight women and 20 over weight men will be recruited. Each subject will have body composition tested, blood lipid profile, and resting metabolic rate done in the beginning of the first academic year and at the end of the first academic year. The intervention group will receive activity trackers, diet counseling, and fitness counseling for one academic year. The second year, all outcome measures (a body scan, blood lipid profile, and resting metabolic rate) will be performed again at the start of the academic year 2, except the intervention group will now be the control group and the control group will now receive the same intervention. All final outcome measures will be performed at the end of the second year.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 35 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Male and female NYITCOM students between the ages of 18-35
BMI ≥ 25.0
Body fat % >19% for males; >33% for women (will be determined by body composition scan)
Own their own smartphone

Exclusion criteria

People who have used weight loss smartphone applications in the past 6 month
People who have used an activity tracker in past 6 months
Anyone who answers yes to one or more questions on the PAR-Q screen
Any contraindication to having a duel x-ray body scan performed based on the American College of Radiology's practice guidelines