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Prevention of the Metabolic Syndrome by New Lifestyle Intervention Methods
Sponsor: University of Oulu
Summary
This intervention aims to reduce obesity by using new type of nutritional and lifestyle therapy and in parallel, tailored persuasive information and communications technology (ICT)-technology based application. The study hypothesis is that obesity cannot be reduced just by distributing nutritional information. Instead, by influencing also the eating behavior, permanent lifestyle changes can be achieved. The effect of the therapy along the time-line, the health information literacy of the study persons and the changes in it will be studied at different phases of the intervention. The research will be carried out in three main groups of different levels of nutritional therapies with a parallel ICT-intervention and control group for each main group (altogether six groups).
Official title: Prevention of the Metabolic Syndrome by a Lifestyle Intervention - an Application of the New Intervention Methods in the Primary Health Care.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
20 Years - 60 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
574
Start Date
2013-02
Completion Date
2025-12
Last Updated
2024-10-31
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Weight loss counseling program
Randomized study persons are given either one of the two different methods of weight loss counseling program without ICT or with ICT-based counseling. As a control for the study groups one group is receiving only ICT-based counseling and one group does not receive any of the counseling methods.
Locations (1)
Oulu University Hospital
Oulu, Finland