Lifestyle On-line Intervention in Patients With Obesity and Hypertension

Cardenal Herrera University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Obesity

Treatments: Other: Educational intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03396302

CEU-UCH 2017-18

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to describe a totally self-applied online program to promote healthy lifestyles (nutritional education and exercise practice) for obese participants with hypertension. Participants will be recruited from users of a hypertension unit of a public hospital and will be randomized into two groups: experimental group and control group (treatment as usual). The experimental program (3 months) will be composed by 8 modules aimed for promoting healthy eating habits and increase physical activity. Assessment will include: body composition (BMI), blood pressure, glucose metabolism variables, and physical activity level (measured with accelerometers).

Design: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Full description

Healthy eating and regular exercise play an important role to maintain health while ageing. Nutritional education and exercise practice could be monitored by different means, such as Internet, face to face and/or through exercise diaries. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) could be a useful tool to promote health, and could be used to work on barriers, such as low motivation and difficulties to maintain exercise or diet. ICTs also have other important advantages, especially their good cost-benefit relationship and the possibility of increasing the efficiency of interventions, allowing them to reach a wider audience at a lower cost. This study aims to describe a totally self-applied online program to promote healthy lifestyles (nutritional education and exercise practice) for obese participants with hypertension. Participants will be recruited from users of a hypertension unit of a public hospital and will be randomized into two groups: experimental group and control group (treatment as usual). The experimental program (3 months) will be composed by 8 modules aimed for promoting healthy eating habits and increase physical activity. Assessment will include: body composition (BMI), blood pressure, glucose metabolism variables, and physical activity level (measured with accelerometers).

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Overweight or obesity (BMI= 25-35 kg/m2)
• Hypertension

Exclusion criteria

• Not having access to the Internet or lack of information about it.
• Treatment with more than 3 antihypertensive drugs.
• Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis.
• Meet the criteria of the DSM-IV-TR of a Food Disorder.
• Presenting some type of severe psychiatric disorder.
• Disability that prevents or hinders physical exercise.
• Be receiving some treatment for weight loss in another center.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will receive access to the web-based lifestyle intervention (exercise and nutritional education).

Treatment:

Other: Educational intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive Hospital treatment as usual.