NCT04426877

Lifestyle Internet-Based Intervention On Hypertensive Patients With Overweight Or Obesity

Impact Of An Exercise And Nutritional Education Self-Applied Online Intervention On Body Composition And Blood Pressure On Hypertensive Adults With Overweight Or Obesity.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 135 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cardenal Herrera University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to analyze the effects of a 3 months duration self-applied online program, composed of 9 modules focused on promoting healthy lifestyle habits (healthy eating and increased physical activity), on obese or overweight adults with hypertension. Participants will be recruited from a hypertension unit of a public hospital. These patients will be randomized allocated into two interventional groups: experimental group will receive audiovisual instructions from their hypertension specialist doctor, and the control group from a doctor outside the patient. Assessment will include: body composition (BMI), blood pressure, levels of physical activity, functional capacity, fall risk, and quality of life.

Detailed description

Hypertension and obesity or overweight related, even other associated comorbidities, involve a worrying public health problem. The evidence shows that healthy eating and regular physical exercise, monitored by different means (internet, face to face, exercise diaries), play an important prevention role to maintain health while ageing. In this way, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been demonstrated as a useful tool to promote health, working on barriers at the same time, such as low motivation and difficulties to maintain regular exercise or healthy eating habits. ICTs also allows to reach a wider audience at a lower cost, due to their good cost-benefit relationship and the possibility of increasing the efficiency of interventions. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the effects of a 3 months duration self-applied online program, composed of 9 modules focused on promoting healthy lifestyle habits (healthy eating and increased physical activity), on obese or overweight adults with hypertension. Participants will be recruited from a hypertension unit of a public hospital. These patients will be randomized allocated into two interventional groups: experimental group will receive audiovisual instructions from their hypertension specialist doctor, and the control group from a doctor outside the patient. Assessment will include: body composition (BMI), blood pressure, levels of physical activity, functional capacity, fall risk, and quality of life.

Conditions

• Hypertension
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental group	The self-applied online program will comprise a three months behavioural intervention composed by 9 modules seeking to develop gradually achieving the goals of changing eating and physical activity habits, supported by audiovisual instructions. This group will receive access to the web-based lifestyle intervention (exercise and nutritional education), supported by audiovisual instructions given by their hypertension specialist doctor.
BEHAVIORAL	Control group	The self-applied online program will comprise a three months behavioural intervention composed by 9 modules seeking to develop gradually achieving the goals of changing eating and physical activity habits, supported by audiovisual instructions. This group will receive the same web-based lifestyle intervention (exercise and nutritional education), but in this case supported by audiovisual instructions given by a doctor outside the patient.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-01
• Completion: 2021-06-05
• First posted: 2020-06-11
• Last updated: 2021-06-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain