Effectiveness of Online Visit Compared With In-person Clinic Visit on Weight Loss

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effectiveness of Online Visit Compared With In-person Clinic Visit on Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Women, a Randomized Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03171961
• Other study ID #: ND-207
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 20, 2017
• Est. completion date: March 11, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: Novindiet Clinic
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Online visit and online counseling via telemedicine technology is a new service for obese people who wish to lose weight but because of their active lifestyle and time limitation cannot come to clinic. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy this technology-based intervention on weight loss in obese and overweight female adults.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 120
• Est. completion date: March 11, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: February 10, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be female
• Must be 18-45 years of age.
• Must have Body mass index (BMI) between 27-35 kg/ m².
• Must be able to have moderate exercise.
• Must be interested to have weight loss.
• Have access to the internet via broad- band ADSL or Mobile 4G

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy or lactation during the previous 6 months, or planned pregnancy in the next six months.
• Taking medications that could affect metabolism or change body weight.
• Report heart problems, chest pain, and cancer within the last five years.
• Smoking
• Menopause
• Diagnosis of any chronic disease such as fatty liver, cancer, chemo/radio therapy, heart disease, immune compromised conditions, abnormal thyroid hormone level.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Overweight
• Weight Loss

Intervention

Behavioral:
• online visit group
subjects has online visit with dietitian every 2 weeks+diet
• Clinic visit group
Clinic visit group ,subjects has every 2 weeks in person visit at clinic+diet
• self-directed group
self-directed group receives nutritional information via web and their energy needs for weight loss

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Iran, Islamic Republic of	NovinDiet Clinic	Tehran
Iran, Islamic Republic of	NovinDiet Clinic	Tehran

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Novindiet Clinic	Tehran University of Medical Sciences, University of Nottingham

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Iran, Islamic Republic of, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	weight	kg	24 Weeks
Secondary	Waist circumference	cm	24 Weeks
Secondary	Fasting blood glucose	mmol/l	24 Weeks
Secondary	Fasting insulin level	mU/l	24 Weeks
Secondary	HbA1c	score	24 Weeks
Secondary	HOMA-IR	Percentage (%)	24 Weeks
Secondary	lipid profiles	mmol/l	24 Weeks
Secondary	liver function tests	U/l	24 Weeks