Education Session to Improve Program Adherence

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Weight Management
• Interventions: Behavioral: one-hour dietary self-monitoring tool education session

• Registration Number: NCT06428695
• Lead Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Brief Summary

To examine is user knowledge of a dietary self-monitoring (DSM) calorie tracking app and improving patient adherence to daily caloric food intake to help with weight loss.

Detailed Description

The research question guiding this project is: In adults with a BMI greater than 25 kg/m2, does a 1-hour education session on using a calorie-tracking application improve adherence to a calorie-restricted weight management program over eight weeks? This project aimed to increase patient knowledge with the DSM tool. To Increase adherence to the calorie-restricted diet program and, finally, to increase weight loss in the program participants of the 8-week program

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-05
• Study First Submitted: 2024-05-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-05-20
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-24
• Study Start: 2024-06-10
• Primary Completion: 2024-08-16
• Study Completion: 2024-08-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-08-26
• Last Update Posted: 2024-08-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years of age and older with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 25 kg/m2

Exclusion Criteria

• Younger than18 years of age with a Body Mass Index (BMI) less than 25 kg/m2

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
dietary self-monitoring tool education session	one-hour dietary self-monitoring tool education session	access the impact of a one-hour dietary self-monitoring tool education session for participants in a calorie-restricted weight management program on their knowledge of the use of the tool to help them adhere to a calorie-restricted weight management program

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Perceived Competence Scale (PCS) Score	Week 8	The Perceived Competence Scale (PCS) will be the open-access validated tool used for this project. This will be the 4 questions pretest/posttest utilized. A 1-hour education session will provide training on the use of a DSM calorie-tracking app. Following this will be an 8-week in-person weight management program focusing on a daily calorie and carb restriction and protein goal. Each item is scored from 1 to 4, where a score of 1 indicates low perceived competence and a score of 4 reflects high perceived competence. Scores are summed and then averaged for each subscale, resulting in four separate subscale means.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Wake Forest University Health Sciences; 🇺🇸 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States