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Smartphone Pedometers and Body Mass of Overweight and Obese Clients.

NCT03423966 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 194

Last updated 2019-02-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study sets out to determine the effect of smartphone pedometers on the body mass of overweight and obese clients at the general outpatient department, national hospital Abuja.

It is a synopsis of the proposed dissertation submitted to the West African College of Physicians in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the part 11 Fellowship examination of the faculty of Family Medicine.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

DEVICE

Smartphone Pedometer App

Installation of the free pedometer app and explanation to participants to target 10000 steps per day. The intent is not the accuracy of the pedometer but the motivation especially to a community yet to harness the full potentials of the mobile phone technology

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Hospital, Abuja

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Ngong H Cyprian, MBBS · National Hospital, Abuja

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-08-21
Primary Completion
2019-01-21
Completion
2019-01-30

Countries

  • Nigeria

Study Locations

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