Sharing Digital Self-Monitoring Data With Others to Enhance Long-Term Weight Loss

Description

Adults attempting weight loss through lifestyle modification (LM) typically find maintenance of behavior change difficult. Outcomes might be improved if participants are provided with sustained sources of accountability and support and ongoing opportunities to reflect with others on goal progress. This study proposes that sharing digital data with other parties has the potential to improve long-term weight loss. The proposed study will enroll adults ("index participants") (N = 320) with overweight/obesity in a 24-month LM program and instruct them to use digital tools for self-monitoring of weight, physical activity, and eating on a daily basis.

Conditions

Overweight, Obesity

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Study overview

Adults attempting weight loss through lifestyle modification (LM) typically find maintenance of behavior change difficult. Outcomes might be improved if participants are provided with sustained sources of accountability and support and ongoing opportunities to reflect with others on goal progress. This study proposes that sharing digital data with other parties has the potential to improve long-term weight loss. The proposed study will enroll adults ("index participants") (N = 320) with overweight/obesity in a 24-month LM program and instruct them to use digital tools for self-monitoring of weight, physical activity, and eating on a daily basis.

Sharing Digital Self-Monitoring Data With Others to Enhance Long-Term Weight Loss: A Randomized Trial Using a Factorial Design

Sharing Digital Self-Monitoring Data With Others to Enhance Long-Term Weight Loss

Condition
Overweight
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Philadelphia

Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Individuals must be of overweight or obese BMI (27-50 kg/m2)
  • * Individuals must be adults (aged 18-70)
  • * Able to engage in physical activity (defined as walking two city blocks without stopping)
  • * Access and willingness to use a smartphone and internet
  • * Has one adult friend or family member who indicates willingness to serve in a support role
  • * Satisfactory completion of all enrollment procedures
  • * English Speaking
  • * Medical or psychiatric condition (e.g., cancer, type I diabetes, psychosis, full-threshold eating disorder) that may pose a risk to the participant during intervention or cause a change in weight, or limit ability to comply with the program or participate appropriately in group-based treatment
  • * Currently pregnant or breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant in the next 24 months
  • * Use of insulin or a medication that can cause significant change in weight
  • * History of bariatric surgery
  • * Weight loss of greater than or equal to 5% in the previous 3 months
  • * Weight loss of greater than or equal to 10% in the past 3 years that is currently being maintained

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 70 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Drexel University,

Meghan L Butryn, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Drexel University

Study Record Dates

2026-06