Status:
COMPLETED
SMART: A Social and Mobile Weight Control Program for Young Adults
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, San Diego
Conditions:
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-35 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The Social/Mobile Approach to Reduce Weight (SMART) study is a 24-month randomized control trial designed to evaluate the hypothesis that weight status at 24 months will be significantly better for th...
Detailed Description
The focus of the SMART study is to develop an intervention to promote weight loss in overweight or obese young adults. The investigators will recruit college and university students to evaluate the ef...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age 18 to 35 years
- Intending to be available for a 24 month intervention
- Full-time student enrollment at one of the designated San Diego college or university campuses: UCSD, SDSU, and CSU San Marcos
- Facebook user or willingness to begin using Facebook
- Owns personal computer
- Owns mobile phone and uses text messaging
- Willing to attend required research measurement visits in San Diego over the 2 year RCT
- Participants must meet overweight and obesity criteria: 25 \< BMI \<35 kg/m2
- English-speaking
- Able to ambulate unassisted
Exclusion
- Those unable to provide informed consent
- Those with a BMI of \<25 kg/m2 or \>35 kg/m2
- Those who have a household member on the study staff
- Those with any comorbidities of obesity who require immediate sub-specialist referral including pseudo-tumor cerebri, sleep apnea/hypoventilation syndrome, orthopedic problems, and meeting American Diabetes Association criteria for diabetes
- Cardiovascular event within the last 6 months
- Systolic BP at screening of \>160 mmHg OR diastolic BP \> 100 mmHg
- Current treatment for malignancy other than non-melanoma skin cancer
- Psychiatric or medical condition that prohibit compliance with study protocol, prescribed dietary changes and/or moderate physical activity
- Current treatment for eating disorder
- Taking medications that alter weight
- Regular use of systemic steroids
- Currently pregnant, gave birth within the last 6 months, currently lactating or breastfeeding within the last 3 months or intending to get pregnant over the next two years
- Enrolled in or planning to enroll in another weight loss program
- Past or planned (within the next 24 months) weight loss surgery
- Current participation in a commercial weight loss program
- Investigator discretion
- Non-English speaking
- Not able to ambulate unassisted
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 1 2014
Estimated Enrollment :
404 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01200459
Start Date
May 1 2011
End Date
June 1 2014
Last Update
December 8 2014
Active Locations (1)
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University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States, 92093-0811