NCT04080193

Gender-sensitive Enhancement of Common Weight Loss Strategies for Overweight and Obesity

Gender-sensitive Enhancement of Common Weight Loss Strategies for Overweight and Obesity: a Personalized Smartphone App

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 213 (actual)
• Sponsor: Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The major aim of the proposed study is to develop a gender-sensitive individually tailored add-on intervention that focusses on improving individual gender-specific SIRs (subjective illness representations) in obese or overweight individuals. We will investigate whether this will improve compliance with and long-term success of common weight loss interventions. The effectiveness of this intervention in every-day-life with regard to weight-related behavioral changes and weight loss will be evaluated within a randomized controlled setting.To enhance the applicability of the intervention in every-day-life and its dissemination we plan to develop a smart-phone-based intervention.

Conditions

• Overweight and Obesity
• Weight Loss
• Gender

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Smartphone-based interventional trial	According to the SIRs the 12-week intervention will contain exercises from three out of six different key modules (e.g. self-efficacy, impulsivity). The remaining modules will be implemented as mini-modules during the end of the intervention phase. The study will be designed gender-sensitive instead of gender-dichotomous. This means that treatment contents will be individualized based on gender-related SIRs and not biological sex. Participants choose between two different styles of presentation for each module and the contents can be deepened within specific exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-07
• Primary completion: 2021-12-22
• Completion: 2022-02-28
• First posted: 2019-09-06
• Last updated: 2022-05-09

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany