Text Messages With Financial Incentives for Men With Obesity: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Effective weight loss interventions are needed for men with obesity.

Objective

To determine whether an intervention that combined text messaging with financial incentives attained significant weight loss at the 12-month follow-up compared with the control group and whether an intervention of text messaging alone attained significant weight loss at the 12-month follow-up compared with the control group.

Design, setting, and participants

An assessor-blinded randomized clinical trial conducted in Belfast, Bristol, and Glasgow areas in the UK. A total of 585 men with body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more were enrolled between July 2021 and May 2022. Final follow-up occurred June 2023.

Interventions

Participants were randomly assigned to 12 months of behavi

SUBMITTER: Hoddinott P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11094620 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature