Weight Loss and Healthy Diet Through Mobile Phone-enabled Social Interactions

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Overweight, Obese

In brief

A randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of the social-enabled internet weight loss and diet change intervention with the delayed treatment group for 3 months. We will study the effect of adding social interactions and supports to an Internet weight loss and diet change intervention. The website intervention will have action planning with social interactions and support features for sharing, reusing, recommending, and discussing strategies for improving habits. We hypothesize that the intervention group with access to the website will lose more weight than the delayed treatment group after three months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01957800

Run by

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

People needed

102

Starts

2013-10-01

Expected to finish

2014-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-09-01

Who can join

Age: 21 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Between 21-65 years old
• English speaking
• BMI from 27-50 kg/m2
• Access to the Internet at home or work for most days of the week
• Have current service for a smart phone with a camera and texting capability
• Able to use mobile phone to take a picture and send it to someone
• Able to use mobile phone to look for information on the internet using a search engine (such as Google)
• Able to use mobile phone to send and receive text messages
• Able to use mobile phone to send and receive emails
• Access to a scale at home

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the next 3 months
• Planning on moving out of the area in the next 6 months
• Weigh more than 300 pounds
• Participating in an internet or community weight loss program
• Taking medication, prescription or over the counter for weight loss
• Doctor has said you have a heart condition and should only do physical activity recommended by a doctor
• Feel pain in chest when doing physical activity
• In the past month feel pain in chest when not doing physical activity

Where it is running

• Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

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