MyFitnessPal Pilot Study

Geisinger Health

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Weight Reduction

Treatments: Behavioral: MyFitnessPal user

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05059938

2021-0907

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project is studying whether patients who use MyFitnessPal as an aid to weight loss have more success than patients who are only given traditional medical guidance from the patient's physician.

Full description

Patients will be given a survey determining the patient's eligibility to be part of the study. Based on the results patients will be consented and then randomized into two arms. The intervention group will download MyFitnessPal onto the patient's smartphone and given guidance on how to use the application in order to help with weight loss. The control group will receive traditional weight loss counseling from the physician. Both groups will have measurement recorded for weight, blood pressure, and waist circumference at the patient's initial visit. All patients will be asked to return to the clinic at no cost to the patient to have measurements recorded for the patient's weight, blood pressure, and waist circumference at 1 month, 3 months, and 6 months after the patient's initial visit. At the conclusion of the study, patients who were in the intervention group will be asked to take a final survey regarding the patient's use of the MyFitnessPal application.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI>/= 25
• Have a smart phone
• Patient is willing to lose weight

Exclusion criteria

• Do not have a smart phone
• pregnant (current, planned, or previous pregnancy within 6 months)
• have already seen a nutritionist
• on weight loss medication
• using outside weight loss programs
• lack interest in weight loss
• hemodialysis patient
• has a life expectancy less than 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

MyFitnessPal user

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be shown how to download and use MyFitnessPal onto the patient's smartphone. The patient will be asked to use the application to aid in the patient's weight loss plan over up to six months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: MyFitnessPal user

Traditional Weight Loss Counseling

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will be given traditional weight loss counseling from the physician and monitored over up to six months.