NCT03465306

Developing and Validating Clinical Efficacy for Obesity Digital CBT Model

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years – 39 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the present study is to develop and validate the effects of a new cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) using digital healthcare mobile apps such as Noom Coach and InBody.

Detailed description

Seventy female participants whose BMI scores were above 23 and who had no other clinical problem except obesity were randomized into an experimental and a control group. Forty-five people in the experimental group were connected with the therapist using digital healthcare apps, so they got daily feedbacks and assignments for 8 weeks. Twenty-five people in the control group also used digital healthcare apps but they were asked to do self-care without intervention.

Conditions

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Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a psycho-social intervention that is the most widely used evidence-based practice for improving mental health and requires active interactions between the participants and a therapist or coach.
DEVICE	Self-guided	Self-guided refers to any contact between the participants and a therapist or coach.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-18
• Primary completion: 2018-04-20
• Completion: 2018-04-30
• First posted: 2018-03-14
• Last updated: 2019-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea