Web-based Personal or Peer Group Weight Management Study (PERGROUP)

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Overweight and Obesity; Cardiovascular Risk Factors; Work Ability

Treatments: Behavioral: Weight management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03904160

10618012017

Details and patient eligibility

About

The PERGROUP trial aims to investigate whether Web-based personal or Web-based group counselling weight management program can help to achieve lifestyle changes needed for weight loss and improvement in quality of life and cardiovascular risk factors. The control group is the traditional nurse-lead weight management group counselling.

Full description

In this study, efficacy of two web-based weight management systems will be compared to a traditional nurse-lead sessions for weight management.

Ten nurse-lead group counselling sessions lasting 90 minutes each will be conducted in three groups of 10-14 participants. Each session comprise education about healthy diet, psychoeducation and discussions.

The web-based group counselling program offers informative weight management system with peer-based conversation possibility. Three groups of 10-14 participants who gather together for three nurse-lead sessions in the weeks 0, 5, and 12. The web-based program can be used for a year.

The web-based personal counselling program offers informative weight management system with conversation possibility with the nurse for 12 weeks. Altogether 37 participants are enrolled and they can use the web-based weight management system for one year.

In each intervention arm, intervention and counselling provided by the study nurses last for three months. Among all participants, weight loss, cardiometabolic data, information of lifestyle and quality of life will be measured at baseline, after the nurse-lead intervention (three months) and 12 months from the baseline.

Enrollment: 109 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• body mass index 25 kg/m2 or higher

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• active cancer
• acute cardiovascular event less than three months before
• untreated thyroid disease
• systematic corticosteroid medication
• anorexia or bulimia
• impaired communication ability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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109 participants in 3 patient groups

Nurse-lead group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Nurse-lead sessions for weight management. Ten sessions lasting 90 minutes each in three groups of 10-14 participants. Each session comprise education about healthy diet, psychoeducation and discussions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Weight management

Web-based group

Experimental group

Description:

Web-based weight management system with peer-based conversation possibility. Three groups of 10-14 participants who gather together for three nurse-lead sessions in the weeks 0, 5, and 12. The web-based program can be used for a year.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Weight management

Web-based personal

Experimental group

Description:

Web-based weight management system with conversation possibility with the nurse for 12 weeks. Altogether 37 participants who can use the web-based weight management system for one year.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Weight management