Impact of Mobile Phone Texting Service to Support Weight Loss

NCT02985307 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2025-10-03

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Summary

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.

Conditions

Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Short Message Text Service

A service designed by professionals inside the National Health Service (NHS) to provide support and advice for participants to manage weight loss. It combines the expertise of the healthcare team and the convenience of the participant's own mobile phone to give prompts and advice to act on. It makes use of the familiar and convenient mobile phone text service 'SMS' to communicate directly with participants.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Weight Management Group

A standard Lothian NHS group programme facilitated by a Dietitian

Sponsors & Collaborators

Queen Margaret University
collaborator OTHER
NHS Lothian
lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

Douglas McBean, PhD · Queen Margaret University

Study Design

Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking: NONE
Model: PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age: 18 Years
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start: 2017-04-28
Primary Completion: 2018-11-30
Completion: 2018-11-30

Countries

United Kingdom

Study Locations

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Diseases

Obesity