Web-based virtual reality to enhance behavioural skills training and weight loss in a commercial online weight management programme: The Experience Success randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Commercial online weight management programmes are popular and easily accessible but often lack training in empirically validated behaviour change strategies and produce suboptimal outcomes. This study evaluated the effects of a Web-based virtual reality (VR) programme for enhancing behavioural skills training and weight loss when offered as an adjunct to a commercial online weight management programme.

Methods

N = 146 adults with overweight/obesity (body mass index [BMI] 27-40 kg/m²) were randomized to 6 months of no-cost access to the Weight Watchers (WW) online platform alone or enhanced with the Experience Success (WW + ES) programme, consisting of four Web-based VR sessions for training in behavioural weight-loss skills related to the home en

SUBMITTER: Thomas JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7746971 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature