Does Text Message Support After Discharge Improve Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery? A Randomised Trial.

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Does Text Message Support After Discharge Improve Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery? A Randomised Trial and Sub-study of the BOBS Study (Better Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02341001
• Other study ID #: BOBSRCT01
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 24, 2014
• Last updated: October 26, 2017
• Start date: January 2015
• Est. completion date: January 2017

Study information

• Verified date: October 2017
• Source: University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether text message support after discharge from a bariatric service improves outcomes following bariatric surgery.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 110
• Est. completion date: January 2017
• Est. primary completion date: January 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients who have had a sleeve gastrectomy 18 months ago and are attending the discharge follow-up appointment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who do not have the ability to receive text messages

• Patients who do not understand written English

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bariatric Surgery Candidate
• Obesity

Intervention

Other:
• Daily text message of support

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
New Zealand	Counties Manukau District Health Board	Auckland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Auckland, New Zealand	Health Research Council, New Zealand

Country where clinical trial is conducted

New Zealand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Number of re-referrals to the bariatric clinic		Twelve months
Other	Cost comparison	Very basic cost comparison will be performed by calculating the cost of each intervention and comparing them. Items included in the cost analysis will be the cost of text messaging and the costs incurred if patients in the study were reviewed by the bariatric team after re-referral.	Twelve months
Primary	Percent of excess weight lost		Twelve months
Secondary	Bariatric Analysis and Reporting Outcome System (BAROS)		Twelve months