Telemedical Coaching for Weight Loss (Fit)

West German Center of Diabetes and Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight; Obesity; Metabolic Syndrome

Treatments: Device: telemedical (TM) group; Behavioral: telemedical coaching (TMC) group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01837134

98149 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Telemedical coaching

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 is 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 employees with overweight and/or metabolic syndrome will be 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 will get care calls from the study centre aiming to discuss measured data and to fix target agreements. The control group will remain in routine care.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• employed at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH for at least 2 years
• older than 40 years
• overweight or obese or metabolic syndrome

Exclusion criteria

• not willing to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 3 patient groups

control (C) group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will remain in routine care for 12 weeks. After 12 weeks they will also be given 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. During the next 12 weeks they will get care calls from the study centre aiming to discuss measured data and to fix target agreements.

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 (TM) group

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. After 12 weeks the care calls be be given once per month for further 9 months.

Treatment:

Behavioral: telemedical coaching (TMC) group

Device: telemedical (TM) group