Status:
COMPLETED
Smartphone Pedometers and Body Mass of Overweight and Obese Clients.
Lead Sponsor:
National Hospital, Abuja
Conditions:
Overweight and Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-65 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The study sets out to determine the effect of smartphone pedometers on the body mass of overweight and obese clients at the general outpatient department, national hospital Abuja. It is a synopsis of...
Detailed Description
3.1 Study Area The Hospital is a melting pot of referral cases, fresh cases, executive patients and the masses alike and therefore gives a scout picture of the non-communicable diseases situation in N...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Consenting screened participants that are overweight or obese who want to lose at least 5% of their baseline weight.
- Adults aged 18 to 65 years old.
Exclusion
- Clients on weight lose drugs because this may confound the cause of the weight loss.
- Patients with conditions that do not allow mobility.
- Patients with major organ failure because such patients may not be so stable to cope with prescribed exercise schedule.
- Pregnancy; present, intending and 6 months postpartum because the cause of the weight loss or gain may be attributed to the pregnancy.
- Morbidly obese clients because this are candidates for drug therapy and surgical interventions and it will be unethical to delay such interventions.
- Clients with no android smartphone that are randomized to the intervention group because the intervention will not be possible.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 21 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 30 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
194 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03423966
Start Date
August 21 2018
End Date
January 30 2019
Last Update
February 18 2019
Active Locations (1)
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National Hospital Abuja
Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, 00009