Clinical trial

Prevention of the Metabolic Syndrome by New Lifestyle Intervention Methods

Active, not recruiting · Not applicable · 1 countries · Registry ID NCT01959763

Active, not recruitingNot applicableInterventional

What this study is about

This intervention aims to reduce obesity by using new type of nutritional and lifestyle therapy and in parallel, tailored persuasive information and communications technology (ICT)-technology based application. The study hypothesis is that obesity cannot be reduced just by distributing nutritional information. Instead, by influencing also the eating behavior, permanent lifestyle changes can be achieved. The effect of the therapy along the time-line, the health information literacy of the study persons and the changes in it will be studied at different phases of the intervention. The research will be carried out in three main groups of different levels of nutritional therapies with a parallel ICT-intervention and control group for each main group (altogether six groups).

A promising-looking record is not the same as confirmed eligibility. The study team must review the full criteria and current recruitment status.

Basic eligibility

Age20 Years to 60 Years

SexAll

Healthy volunteersNot accepted

ConditionMetabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Overweight, Cardiovascular Disease

Full registry criteria

Inclusion Criteria: * BMI 27-35 Exclusion Criteria: * Other concurrent weight loss programs * Disease which prevents weight loss * Medication which affects on weight loss

Treatments and study arms

Weight loss counseling program

Behavioral

Randomized study persons are given either one of the two different methods of weight loss counseling program without ICT or with ICT-based counseling. As a control for the study groups one group is receiving only ICT-based counseling and one group does not receive any of the counseling methods.

Primary outcomes

Weight changeBaseline, 1 , 2 and 5 years

Study locations

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Oulu University Hospital🇫🇮 Oulu, Finland

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