Status:
COMPLETED
Interactive Mobile Messaging for Weight Control Among the Underserved
Lead Sponsor:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Conditions:
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
21-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This project will test the efficacy of the "TRIMM" (Tailored Rapid Interactive Mobile Messaging) program, a user-friendly, semi-individualized text-messaging intervention to facilitate lifestyle chang...
Detailed Description
Type-2 diabetes, and its most important risk factor, obesity, have become major strains on our nation's health care system. By 2050, one in three U.S. adults could have diabetes (Stobbe, 2010), and ob...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Participants must be African-American,
- aged 21-65,
- have a phone with unlimited text/SMS capability,
- a BMI \> 27, and
- be free from uncontrolled hypertension or other health or mental health condition that would make it inappropriate or unsafe for them to participate.
Exclusion
- Following initial assessments, participants will be excluded if they are currently abusing alcohol/other substances, or
- have an Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology (IDS-SR) score \> 38 ('severe to very severe' depression).
- Potential participants with uncontrolled hypertension (\> 160 systolic or \>95 diastolic), HbA1c \> 8, or symptomatic CAD will be referred for medical clearance.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2011
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
124 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01814644
Start Date
July 1 2011
End Date
March 1 2013
Last Update
April 3 2018
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