Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03904160
Web-based Personal or Peer Group Weight Management Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 109 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Turku · Academic / Other
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- 18 Years – 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The PERGROUP trial aims to investigate whether Web-based personal or Web-based group counselling weight management program can help to achieve lifestyle changes needed for weight loss and improvement in quality of life and cardiovascular risk factors. The control group is the traditional nurse-lead weight management group counselling.
Detailed description
In this study, efficacy of two web-based weight management systems will be compared to a traditional nurse-lead sessions for weight management. Ten nurse-lead group counselling sessions lasting 90 minutes each will be conducted in three groups of 10-14 participants. Each session comprise education about healthy diet, psychoeducation and discussions. The web-based group counselling program offers informative weight management system with peer-based conversation possibility. Three groups of 10-14 participants who gather together for three nurse-lead sessions in the weeks 0, 5, and 12. The web-based program can be used for a year. The web-based personal counselling program offers informative weight management system with conversation possibility with the nurse for 12 weeks. Altogether 37 participants are enrolled and they can use the web-based weight management system for one year. In each intervention arm, intervention and counselling provided by the study nurses last for three months. Among all participants, weight loss, cardiometabolic data, information of lifestyle and quality of life will be measured at baseline, after the nurse-lead intervention (three months) and 12 months from the baseline.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Weight management | Please see the arm descriptions. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-01-04
- Primary completion
- 2019-03-30
- Completion
- 2019-03-30
- First posted
- 2019-04-05
- Last updated
- 2020-12-04
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Finland
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03904160. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.