Smartphone Pedometers and Body Mass of Overweight and Obese Clients.

NCT03423966 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: NHA/EC/088/2017
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 194
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

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 the proposed dissertation submitted to the West African College of Physicians in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the part 11 Fellowship examination of the faculty of Family Medicine.

Conditions

Overweight and Obesity

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Weight Loss

  Changes in weight after the use of pedometer app

  4 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Body Mass Index

  4 month

• Waist Circumference

  4 Months

• Blood Pressure

  4 months

Study Arms (2)

Self Objective Mobility Evaluation

EXPERIMENTAL

Usual Care Plus a Smartphone pedometer App

Device: Smartphone Pedometer App

Usual Care (UC)

NO INTERVENTION

Usual Care of obesity

Interventions

Smartphone Pedometer App DEVICE

Installation of the free pedometer app and explanation to participants to target 10000 steps per day. The intent is not the accuracy of the pedometer but the motivation especially to a community yet to harness the full potentials of the mobile phone technology

Self Objective Mobility Evaluation

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• 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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Hospital, Abuja: lead

Study Sites (1)

National Hospital Abuja

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, 00009, Nigeria

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Overweight; Obesity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Ngong H Cyprian, MBBS

  National Hospital, Abuja

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Senior Registrar and Secretary, Research and Academic Committee

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 31, 2018
• First Posted: February 6, 2018
• Study Start: August 21, 2018
• Primary Completion: January 21, 2019
• Study Completion: January 30, 2019
• Last Updated: February 18, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

NG (1)