Online Re-Intervention On Eating Behaviour and BMI On Obese Hypertensive Patients (LOREB)

Cardenal Herrera University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Overweight and Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: REINTERVENTION

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04580264

UNIVERSITY CARDENAL HERRERA-27

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research will constitute a 3-year follow-up that includes a re-evaluation and re-intervention of overweight or obese adults suffering from hypertension, who already participated in a similar programme with the same objectives 3 years ago.

Patients will be recruited in the Hypertension Unit of a public hospital and assigned to a experimental group. The evaluation will include: eating behaviour, body mass index (BMI) and physical activity levels.

Full description

Hypertension incidence and overweight or obesity related, constitute a worrying public health problem nowadays. Evidence indicates that, despite the existence of several factors involved in their etiology, diet and physical activity play a particularly important role in the treatment and prevention of obesity and associated disorders.

However, interventions for the treatment of obesity encounter some environmental and personal barriers, specifically problems or deficits in motivation. These barriers sometimes make it difficult to implement intervention strategies. In this sense, there is an important agreement about the need to generate alternatives and strategies which promote intrinsic motivation, self-regulation and self-efficacy as fundamental variables which have a direct relationship with the adherence and success of obesity treatments.

To achieve this, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a very promising alternative, as they can provide personalised feedback and can be flexibly adapted to each user. In addition, ICTs also present other important advantages, especially their excellent cost-benefit ratio, and the possibility of increasing the efficiency of the interventions, since they allow to reach a greater number of users at a lower cost.

This research will constitute a 3-year follow-up that includes a re-evaluation and re-intervention of overweight or obese adults suffering from hypertension, who already participated in a similar programme with the same objectives 3 years ago.

Patients will be recruited in the Hypertension Unit of a public hospital and assigned to a experimental group. The evaluation will include: eating behaviour, body mass index (BMI) and physical activity levels.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hypertension.
• Overweight or obesity (25 ≤ BMI ≤ 35 kg/m2).
• Aged between 18-65 years.
• Being a participant of the program 3 years ago.

Exclusion criteria

• Not having access to the Internet or lack of information about it.
• Treatment with more than 3 antihypertensive drugs.
• 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.
• Receiving some treatment for weight loss.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will receive access to the same web-based lifestyle intervention (exercise and nutritional education)

Treatment:

Behavioral: REINTERVENTION