MPOWERed Messages: Tailored Mobile Messages to Enhance Weight Loss for Teens

NCT ID: NCT01448551

Last Updated: 2016-12-21

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

50 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-10-31

Study Completion Date

2015-10-31

Brief Summary

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Obesity affects millions of American children and increases their risk of adult obesity, a myriad of serious illnesses, increased healthcare costs, and premature death. It is vital to find ways to reverse this epidemic. Multidisciplinary behavioral weight management programs offer the promise of effectively treating childhood obesity. However, participants in such programs often find it challenging to follow recommended treatment plans and frequently drop out from programs without completing them. The proposed project aims to address these problems through frequent contact with patients between office visits. This interim contact will be achieved by automatically sending tailored messages to the mobile phones of adolescents enrolled in a multidisciplinary weight management program (the MPOWER program), as an adjunct to clinic visits.

The investigators hypothesize that program participants who receive the tailored text messages will experience lower attrition rates, increased treatment adherence, and greater weight loss compared to those program participants who do not receive the messages.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Obesity

Keywords

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Obesity Treatment Adolescents Text Messages Mobile phones Multidisciplinary

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Text Messaging

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Tailored Mobile Messages to Enhance Weight Loss for Teens

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

For this trial adolescents will be allowed to use their own phone (with reimbursement for any study-related costs), or will be provided with a mobile phone, if requested. Participants will receive messages delivered daily over the course of 20 weeks. The content of the messages will be tailored on participants' responses to the MPOWER enrollment survey and the initial tailoring questionnaire. On school days, all messages will be sent after 3 pm (which is after school hours for most Michigan middle and high schools). Therefore, patients will not need to carry cell phones to school. The tailored messages will utilize various degrees of personalization, adaptation and feedback - including momentary assessments with feedback requiring a text reply from the adolescents.

Control

Participation in the MPOWER program without receiving tailored text messages

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Tailored Mobile Messages to Enhance Weight Loss for Teens

For this trial adolescents will be allowed to use their own phone (with reimbursement for any study-related costs), or will be provided with a mobile phone, if requested. Participants will receive messages delivered daily over the course of 20 weeks. The content of the messages will be tailored on participants' responses to the MPOWER enrollment survey and the initial tailoring questionnaire. On school days, all messages will be sent after 3 pm (which is after school hours for most Michigan middle and high schools). Therefore, patients will not need to carry cell phones to school. The tailored messages will utilize various degrees of personalization, adaptation and feedback - including momentary assessments with feedback requiring a text reply from the adolescents.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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MPOWERed Messages

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* BMI ≥ 95th percentile for sex and age according to CDC growth charts
* Enrollment in the MPOWER program
* At least one parent willing and able to participate in the MPOWER program with the adolescent
* Absence of any major medical illness, disability, or moderate/severe mental disorder (e.g., liver disease, renal failure, cancer, bipolar disorder)

Exclusion Criteria

* Presence of any major medical illness, disability, or moderate/severe mental disorder (e.g., renal failure, cancer, bipolar disorder)
* Physical, mental, or cognitive handicaps that prevent participation
* Chronic use of medications that may affect study outcomes (e.g., Diuretics, oral steroids)
* Girls who are pregnant, planning to become pregnant in the next 6 months, lactating, or within 6 months postpartum
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Susan J Woolford, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Susan J Woolford, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Michigan

Locations

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University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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5K23HD058797-02

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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F022685-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id