An Adaptive Behavioral Intervention for Weight Loss Management: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Lifestyle interventions for weight loss are difficult to implement in clinical practice. Self-managed mobile health implementations without or with added support after unsuccessful weight loss attempts could offer effective population-level obesity management.

Objective

To test whether a wireless feedback system (WFS) yields noninferior weight loss vs WFS plus telephone coaching and whether participants who do not respond to initial treatment achieve greater weight loss with more vs less vigorous step-up interventions.

Design, setting, and participants

In this noninferiority randomized trial, 400 adults aged 18 to 60 years with a body mass index of 27 to 45 were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to undergo 3 months of treatment initially with WFS or WFS plus coachi

SUBMITTER: Spring B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11094642 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature