NCT04052529

Tracking Our Lives Study

Impact of Using Self-monitoring Smartphone Applications on College Students' Well-being

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

College women are at risk for eating disorders, which have profound health impacts. Cross-sectional studies have shown that the use of dietary self-monitoring is associated with eating disorder risk among college students. However, causality cannot be established with cross-sectional studies. This study utilizes a randomized controlled trial design to examine how the use of a popular dietary self-monitoring smartphone application impacts college females' well-being, including eating disorder risk. We hypothesize those who are randomized to dietary self-monitoring will have a greater increase in eating disorder risk compared to the control group.

Conditions

• Mental Health Wellness 2
• Health Behavior
• Eating Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Dietary self-monitoring	Participants use a popular smartphone application to track their food and drink intake for one month.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-15
• Primary completion: 2019-11-01
• Completion: 2019-11-01
• First posted: 2019-08-09
• Last updated: 2019-11-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States