Experience Success: Virtual Reality Skills Training to Enhance e-Weight Loss
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Overweight, Obesity
In brief
The aim of this Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant is to complete development of a virtual reality intervention to augment and improve commercial Internet-delivered behavioral weight loss treatments, and to test it in a randomized controlled trial.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02836132
- Run by
- The Miriam Hospital
- People needed
- 125
- Starts
- 2016-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-07-19
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- body mass index (BMI) 25-45 kg/m\^2
- English speaking and literate
- able to walk 2 blocks unassisted without stopping
- access to a computer and the Internet
You may not qualify if…
- report of a heart condition, chest pain during periods of activity or rest, or loss of consciousness
- a medical condition that would affect the safety and/or efficacy of a weight management program involving diet and physical activity
- report of a condition that in the judgment of the Principal Investigator would render the participant potentially unlikely to be able to follow the study protocol for 6 months, including terminal illness, substance abuse, eating disorder, dementia, or other significant uncontrolled psychiatric problem
- currently pregnant, within 6-months postpartum, or intend to become pregnant within 6 months
- plan to move out of the local geographic area within 6 months
- previous participation in a weight loss study at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center of Brown University and The Miriam Hospital within the last 2 years
- current participation in another behavioral weight control program
Where it is running
- The Miriam Hospital Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center — Providence, Rhode Island, United States (enrolling)
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