Coached or Non-Coached Weight Loss Intervention

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Weight Loss; Overweight and Obesity; Obesity; Self Efficacy; Behavior, Health; Behavior, Eating
• Interventions: Behavioral: Noom Healthy Weight; mobile behavior change program for weight loss

• Registration Number: NCT04645108
• Lead Sponsor: Noom Inc.

Brief Summary

To evaluate the effect of one-on-one coaching in the Noom Healthy Weight Program, a digital behavior change, weight loss intervention, compared to the same program with no coaching, as well as influential factors.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-10-28
• Study Start: 2020-11-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-11-24
• Study First Posted: 2020-11-27
• Primary Completion: 2021-06-10
• Study Completion: 2021-06-10
• Status Verified: 2022-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-10-05
• Last Update Posted: 2022-10-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 246

Inclusion Criteria

• Able to understand and provide informed consent
• 18-65 years old
• Self-report of good health (physical and mental)
• Not diagnosed with diabetes
• Overweight or obesity (BMI ≥ 27)
• Able to meet our criteria of adherence to the program (at least 1 engagement per week on one of the following: logged exercise, logged meals, steps, weigh-ins, coach messages, read articles, and days with at least one weigh-in.) For females
• Not 6 months postpartum
• Not planning to become pregnant in the next 5 months.

Exclusion Criteria

• Inability or unwillingness of a participant to give written informed consent
• Currently pregnant or ≤ 6 months postpartum
• Presence of a condition or abnormality that in the opinion of the Investigator would compromise the quality of the data E.g., evidence of an eating disorder, major chronic condition

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
No Coach	Noom Healthy Weight; mobile behavior change program for weight loss	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self reported in app engagement measures	4 months	self reported and automatically logged
Weight	4 months	Self reported

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Eating Behavior via the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire	4 months	The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) assesses the structure of an individual's eating behavior. the DEBQ contains separate scales for emotional, external, and restrained eating behavior.
Resilience via Devereux Adult Resilience Survey	4 months	Provides insights into personal strengths
Quality of Life Via SF-12	4 months	Self-reported outcome measure assessing the impact of health on an individual's everyday life. It is often used as a quality of life measure
Self Efficacy via General Self-Efficacy Scale	4 months	The scale was created to assess a general sense of perceived self-efficacy with the aim in mind to predict coping with daily hassles as well as adaptation after experiencing all kinds of stressful life events.
Linguistic Features via Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC)	16 weeks	LIWC-derived linguistic analysis of emotional tone taken from from expressively written text following a writing task prompt

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Noom, Inc; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States