CompletedNot Applicable

Effectiveness to Weight Loss in Sedentary and Overweight People Using a Smartphone Application.

Spain650 participantsStarted 2017-06-01

Plain-language summary

This is a randomized clinical trial aimed at obese and sedentary subjects aged 20 to 65 years selected in urban primary care centers of 5 centers (Spain). Its objective is to evaluate the effects of the addition of an ICT tool developed for the Smartphone application and a Smartband in support of behavioral and educational recommendations to reduce weight.

Who can participate

Age range20 Years – 65 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Obese subjects (IMC ≥ 27.5 to \<40), classified as sedentary according to the short physical activity questionnaire validated in the EVIDENT II study. Exclusion Criteria: * Older than 65 years are excluded, due to difficulties in the use of ICTs. * Advanced respiratory, renal or liver disease. * Several mental illness * Coronary or cerebrovascular atherosclerotic disease, grade II or higher NYHA heart failure. * Moderate or severe COPD * Muscular-skeletal pathology that inhibit mobility * Subjects who can not exercise or follow a hypocaloric diet. * Oncologic disease in treatment diagnosed in the last 5 years. * Terminal situation * Pregnancy * Bariatric surgery * Those with any other circumstance that the investigators consider could interfere with the study procedures

What they're measuring

Weight reduction

Timeframe: 1 year

Trial details

NCT IDNCT03175614

SponsorInstituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2020-06-30

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