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Charge: A Text Messaging-based Weight Loss Intervention

NCT03254940 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 534

Last updated 2025-04-10

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Summary

This study evaluates different versions of a text messaging-based app for weight loss. This study will place participants to 1 of 32 experimental conditions that reflect different texting components and levels. Participants will be randomized to a condition. The investigators will recruit 448 adults into a 6-month weight loss program, with an additional follow-up 6-months after the intervention ends.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Charge

Text messaging-based study to determine effect of different components on weight loss.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Gary G Bennett, PhD · Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Psychology, Global Health & Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-31
Primary Completion
2019-06-29
Completion
2023-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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