Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03435445
Online Platform for Healthy Weight Loss (POEmaS)
Use of Web as a Tool to Promote Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1,276 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Minas Gerais · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Clinical trial to test the efficacy of an online platform based on behavior change principles in promoting weight loss among overweight and obese students and employees of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The hypothesis is that participants of the group which use the platform with or without a dietitian coaching will lose more weight than those allocated to the group who receives dietary and physical activity orientations by educational videos only.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Online platform group | The online platform has social network, gamification and short-text sessions. |
| BEHAVIORAL | Online dietitian coaching | Dietitian coaching refers to individual online sessions between a dietitian and participants to strengthen dietary recommendations |
| BEHAVIORAL | Control group | Minimal intervention with four videos with diet, physical activity and behavior change recommendations |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-09-24
- Primary completion
- 2018-04-23
- Completion
- 2018-04-23
- First posted
- 2018-02-19
- Last updated
- 2025-08-22
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03435445. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.