TeleLifestyleCoaching for Weight Loss (FitMeFit)

West German Center of Diabetes and Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight

Treatments: Behavioral: care calls once per week for 12 weeks; Device: telemedical devices (weighing machine and step counter)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01868763

FitMeFit

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lifestyle changes often fail due to loss of motivation. Telemedicine and personal coaching have the potential to support lifestyle change and weight loss. Therefore, the aim of our randomized controlled trial was to examine the effect of telemedicine with and without coaching in comparison to a control group on weight loss in overweight participants.

Full description

In an occupational health care setting overweight employees were randomized into a three arm 12-week trial. Participants in the telemedical (TM) and telemedical coaching (TMC) group got a weighing machine and a step counter, with automatic transfer into a personalized online portal, which could be monitored from both, the participant and the study centre. The TMC group weekly got care calls from the study centre aiming to discuss measured data and to fix target agreements. The control group remained in routine care. Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to determine if differences (baseline vs. after 12 weeks) were significantly different from 0 and ANOVA test for determination of inter group differences.

Enrollment: 180 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI ≥27 kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Hypoglycemia inducing medication
• severe disease with hospital stay during the last 3 months
• smoking cessation for less then 3 months
• planned smoking cessation during study phase
• acute infects
• chronic diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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180 participants in 3 patient groups

control (C) group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will remain in routine care for 12 weeks.

telemedical (TM) group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the telemedical (TM) group will get a weighing machine and a step counter, with automatic transfer into a personalized online portal, which can be monitored from both, the participant and the study centre.

Treatment:

Device: telemedical devices (weighing machine and step counter)

telemedical coaching (TMC) group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the telemedical coaching (TMC) group will get a weighing machine and a step counter, with automatic transfer into a personalized online portal, which can be monitored from both, the participant and the study centre. Additionally, they will be called once per week for 12 weeks from the study centre aiming to discuss measured data and to fix target agreements.

Treatment:

Device: telemedical devices (weighing machine and step counter)

Behavioral: care calls once per week for 12 weeks