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MPOWERed Messages: Tailored Mobile Messages to Enhance Weight Loss for Teens

NCT01448551 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2016-12-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Obesity affects millions of American children and increases their risk of adult obesity, a myriad of serious illnesses, increased healthcare costs, and premature death. It is vital to find ways to reverse this epidemic. Multidisciplinary behavioral weight management programs offer the promise of effectively treating childhood obesity. However, participants in such programs often find it challenging to follow recommended treatment plans and frequently drop out from programs without completing them. The proposed project aims to address these problems through frequent contact with patients between office visits. This interim contact will be achieved by automatically sending tailored messages to the mobile phones of adolescents enrolled in a multidisciplinary weight management program (the MPOWER program), as an adjunct to clinic visits.

The investigators hypothesize that program participants who receive the tailored text messages will experience lower attrition rates, increased treatment adherence, and greater weight loss compared to those program participants who do not receive the messages.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tailored Mobile Messages to Enhance Weight Loss for Teens

For this trial adolescents will be allowed to use their own phone (with reimbursement for any study-related costs), or will be provided with a mobile phone, if requested. Participants will receive messages delivered daily over the course of 20 weeks. The content of the messages will be tailored on participants' responses to the MPOWER enrollment survey and the initial tailoring questionnaire. On school days, all messages will be sent after 3 pm (which is after school hours for most Michigan middle and high schools). Therefore, patients will not need to carry cell phones to school. The tailored messages will utilize various degrees of personalization, adaptation and feedback - including momentary assessments with feedback requiring a text reply from the adolescents.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Michigan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan J Woolford, MD, MPH · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-10-31
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2015-10-31

Countries

  • United States

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