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SynthesisObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2013

Interventions employing mobile technology for overweight and obesity: an early systematic review of randomized controlled trials.

R Bacigalupo, P Cudd, C Littlewood, P Bissell, M S Hawley, H Buckley Woods

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Synthesis in Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. The effectiveness of app-based mobile interventions on nutrition behaviours and nutrition-related health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2019
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  10. Text messaging interventions for adolescent and young adult substance use: a meta-analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015
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  12. Technology-assisted weight management interventions: systematic review of clinical trials.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2014
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  18. A text message intervention to reduce 21st birthday alcohol consumption: Evaluation of a two-group randomized controlled trial.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2018
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13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

R BacigalupoSchool of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. R.Bacigalupo@sheffield.ac.uk
P Cudd
C Littlewood
P Bissell
M S Hawley
H Buckley Woods

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity is a global epidemic with major healthcare implications and costs. Mobile technologies are potential interventions to promote weight loss. An early systematic review of this rapidly growing area of research was conducted. Electronic databases were searched for articles published between January 1998 and October 2011. Data sources included Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Ongoing research was searched for using clinical trials databases and registers. Out of 174 articles retrieved, 21 met the inclusion criteria of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on mobile technology interventions facilitating weight loss in overweight and obese adults with any other comparator. A narrative synthesis was undertaken. Seven articles were included and appraised using the Cochrane risk of bias tool: four presented a low risk of bias and three presented a high risk of bias. There is consistent strong evidence across the included multiple high-quality RCTs that weight loss occurs in the short-term because of mobile technology interventions, with moderate evidence for the medium-term. Recommendations for improving the reporting and quality of future trials are made including reporting weight loss in percent to meet clinical standards, and including features such as long-term follow-up, cost-effectiveness and patient acceptability.

Indexed as

Cell PhoneComputers, HandheldBody Mass IndexCost-Benefit AnalysisDatabases, FactualFollow-Up StudiesHealth PromotionHumansMeta-Analysis as TopicObesityOverweightRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTelemedicineWeight Lossmobile technologyobesityoverweightweight loss

Identifiers

PMID23167478
PMCPMC3618375

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