Efficacy of Mobile Telehealth Short Message Service (SMS) as a Facilitator for Weight Management: A Randomised Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- NHS Lothian
- 入组人数
- 120
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Weight Loss
研究概览
简要总结
This study evaluates the efficacy of a mobile telehealth short message service as a facilitator for weight management. Half of the participants will receive a standard care weight management group intervention, while the other half will receive daily text messages via their mobile phone to help facilitate weight loss. It is hypothesized that the intervention group receiving text messages will be as successful as the control group at achieving weight loss over a 3-month period.
详细描述
Obesity, a chronic progressive disease, has become a major public health concern due to its increasing prevalence and association with many adverse health conditions including type 2 diabetes, many cancers and heart disease. The number of individuals requiring weight management intervention is increasing necessitating the need to explore other initiatives.
Developments in health technology are growing in popularity and there is increasing evidence that this type of intervention for obesity can significantly improve clinical outcomes. Mobile phones are a popular means of communication that provide a convenient, inexpensive means to deliver a health technology intervention.Short message service (SMS) by mobile phone has the potential to serve as an intervention medium to promote weight loss that is accessible and easy to use.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Body mass index > 35kg/m requiring to lose weight for an operation or having a co-morbidity including diabetes, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure or sleep apnoea or with a body mass >40kg/m with no co-morbidities.
- •Own a mobile phone
- •Have the ability to use short message service
- •Have access to weighing scales
- •Mentally capable of informed consent
- •Have the ability to read and speak English
排除标准
- •Uncontrolled Hypothyroidism
- •Poorly controlled psychiatric illness
- •Current alcohol or drug abuse
- •Learning disability
- •Do not own a mobile phone
- •Do not have access to weighing scales
- •Does not have the ability to read or speak English
研究组 & 干预措施
Short Message Text Service
Participants receive short messages daily via their mobile phone
干预措施: Short Message Text Service (Behavioral)
Standard Weight Management Group
Participants attend standard group weight management sessions
干预措施: Standard Weight Management Group (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Weight Loss
时间窗: 3 months
weight recorded in Kg on a Seca 635 medical digital load cell balance
次要结局
- Behavioural changes necessary for weight loss(3 months)
- Body fat changes(3 months)
- Body Mass index(3 months)
- Height(3months)