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Assessing the Efficacy of Smartphone Calorie Calculator Application on Body Composition With and Without Intervention

NCT03410472 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2018-11-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Over nutrition has led to an increasing overweight and obese population. Maintaining a calorie deficit can be difficult causing many patients to be unsuccessful at weight loss attempts.

There are many smart phone applications that are labeled as weight loss aids, MyFitnessPal™ being one of these applications. MyFitnessPal ™ assists users to help record calorie intake to maintain a balanced caloric intake and to avoid over nutrition

Primary Hypothesis: This study is testing the hypothesis that subjects using a smart phone calorie calculator with intervention will have a greater body fat percentage loss in 8 weeks when compared to the control group.

Secondary Hypothesis: Subjects using a smart phone calorie calculator with intervention will report improved self-body image in 8 weeks.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Web based diet application

This group will be asked to record their diets for 8 weeks after being told an approximate calorie goal. This group will receive weekly emails with tips on how to eat healthy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • New York Institute of Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Patricia Happel, DO · New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-10-12
Primary Completion
2018-10-02
Completion
2018-10-02

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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