Smart Technology for Weight Loss and Metabolic Health

Temple University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Weight Loss; Prediabetes; Lifestyle; Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Device: Wearable technology, smartscale; Behavioral: Standard Weight Management Visits; Behavioral: Smartphone applications

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02742662

23217

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study will evaluate whether a technology-based lifestyle intervention program using primarily a smartphone platform is an acceptable and effective way for treating obesity. The goal of the program is to achieve weight loss and enhance the health of overweight or obese subjects by improving their diet and activity via smartphone applications as compared with conventional in-person weight management programs.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Overweight or obese BMI 25-42 kg/m2
• Employed in sedentary occupations
• Own a personal smartphone with unlimited data plan or >4 GigaByte data
• Proficient with use of smartphone applications and technology with current daily usage
• Ability to engage in moderate intensity exercise
• Weight stability for the last 2 months
• Participants must be willing to comply with all study-related procedures

Exclusion criteria

• Current or planned pregnancy
• Cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal disease, joint disease
• Uncontrolled thyroid disease
• History of eating disorders, psychiatric disease
• History of substance abuse or dependence in the last 1 year
• Diabetes
• Shift work
• Previous weight loss surgery
• Use of weight loss drugs/diet/program in the last 6 weeks
• Inability to increase walking as a form of exercise and to engage in moderate intensity exercise
• Other conditions or medications that affect body weight/appetite/metabolism
• Serious or unstable medical or psychological conditions that would compromise the subject's safety for successful participation
• Incapable of adhering with an intensive lifestyle intervention using technology and smartphone applications

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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29 participants in 2 patient groups

Smart Technology Group

Experimental group

Description:

The Smart Technology Group will receive a technology-based lifestyle intervention program which uses wearable technology, smartscales and smartphone applications to track and deliver feedback on caloric expenditure, physical activity, caloric intake and body weight. Participants will receive information through smartphone applications on strategies to make changes to their diet, physical activity, and weight-related behaviors along with standard 3 monthly in-person weight management visits.

Treatment:

Device: Wearable technology, smartscale

Behavioral: Smartphone applications

Behavioral: Standard Weight Management Visits

Standard Weight Management Group

Other group

Description:

The Standard Weight Management Group will receive 3 monthly in-person weight management visits during which they will receive standard of care lifestyle recommendations in accordance with the 2013 American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology/The Obesity Society Guideline.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard Weight Management Visits