FitLink: Improving Weight Loss Maintenance by Using Digital Data to Provide Support and Accountability

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

87

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 17, 2017

Primary Completion Date

May 31, 2019

Study Completion Date

May 31, 2019

Conditions
ObesityOverweightOverweight and ObesityWeight Loss
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Gold Standard Behavior Therapy for Weight Loss

Group-based behavioral treatment for weight loss, with a standard emphasis on diet (65% of session) and physical activity goals (25% of session). Other weight loss behaviors such as self monitoring will be covered in the remaining time (10% of session). Participants will be asked to utilize digital monitoring devices for physical activity, weight, and diet. Coaches will not have access to the digital data that participants provide on physical activity, weight, and diet monitoring devices.

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Remote Behavior Therapy for Weight Loss

Individual, monthly, brief phone calls with coach and weekly text messages. The content of these calls and messages will be determined by participant self-report. Coaches will not have access to the digital data that participants provide on physical activity, weight, and diet monitoring devices.

BEHAVIORAL

Digital Data Sharing Behavior Therapy for Weight Loss

Individual, monthly, brief phone calls with coach and weekly text messages. The content of these calls and messages will be determined by the digital data that has been shared with the coach from physical activity, weight, and diet monitoring devices.

Trial Locations (1)

19104

Drexel University, Philadelphia

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

NIH

collaborator

Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)

NIH

lead

Drexel University

OTHER

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