DEMETRA - ADVICE-002-2022

DTXO is an investigational therapeutic intervention (Digital Therapeutics - DTx) for obese patients, under clinical validation with a randomized and placebo-controlled clinical trial for confirmatory purposes. It is intended to improve weight loss, weight-loss maintenance, and overall health in patients with obesity by increasing their self-engagement, self-monitoring and adherence to dietary/exercise and behavioral programs. The App integrates different non-pharmacological approaches, engaging the patient through monitoring of her/his non-vital parameters, monitoring of patient diet and exercise, monitoring of patient psychological status, prescription of exercise and diet in a weight-loss program.

The placebo App will include only the non-medical modules of the digital therapy and has been introduced to make the experience of subjects in the control arm more similar to that of subjects in the experimental arm; moreover, data collection through the placebo app (questionnaires) will streamline the data collection process, avoiding manual data entry and reducing the possibility of entry errors.