207
Participants
Start Date
July 31, 2014
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2016
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2016
Telemedicine Weight Management plus Wi-Fi Scale (Arm A)
Telephonic weight loss counseling by trained interventionists, with guided digital scale measurements of weight, lean mass, and fat mass. Counseling sessions and digital weight recording occur at regularly scheduled intervals over a six-month intervention period.
Text for Diet (Text4Diet) Group (Arm B)
Short Message Service (SMS) text messaging in which participants receive 3-5 text messages each day during a six-month intervention period. The text messages provide tips and reminders to encourage healthy eating and weight loss. Participants on this arm also receive a digital scale to track and report weight as prompted once per week through the text program.
Enhanced Usual Care Group (Arm C)
Participants are provided with handouts based on American Cancer Society guidelines for healthy eating and exercise.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Washington University in St Louis (Siteman Cancer Center), St Louis
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NIH
University of Pennsylvania
OTHER
Washington University School of Medicine
OTHER
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
OTHER
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
OTHER