ArticleJMIR research protocols2017
Clinic Versus Online Social Network-Delivered Lifestyle Interventions: Protocol for the Get Social Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial.
Article in JMIR research protocols, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02646618 (Get Social), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Get Social: Randomized Trial of a Social Network Delivered Lifestyle Intervention
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Predicting Participant Engagement in a Social Media-Delivered Lifestyle Intervention Using Microlevel Conversational Data: Secondary Analysis of Data From a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Feedback on Instagram posts for a gestational weight gain intervention.Translational behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- A Facebook-Delivered Weight Loss Intervention Using Open Enrollment: Randomized Pilot Feasibility Trial.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Methods-Motivational Interviewing Approach for Enhanced Retention and Attendance.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Delivering a Post-Partum Weight Loss Intervention via Facebook or In-Person Groups: Protocol for a Randomized Feasibility Pilot Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Social Media and Obesity in Adults: a Review of Recent Research and Future Directions.Current diabetes reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundOnline social networks may be a promising modality to deliver lifestyle interventions by reducing cost and burden. Although online social networks have been integrated as one component of multimodality lifestyle interventions, no randomized trials to date have compared a lifestyle intervention delivered entirely via online social network with a traditional clinic-delivered intervention.
objectiveThis paper describes the design and methods of a noninferiority randomized controlled trial, testing (1) whether a lifestyle intervention delivered entirely through an online social network would produce weight loss that would not be appreciably worse than that induced by a traditional clinic-based lifestyle intervention among overweight and obese adults and (2) whether the former would do so at a lower cost.
methodsAdults with body mass index (BMI) between 27 and 45 kg/m
resultsThe final wave of data collection is expected to conclude in June 2019. Data analysis will take place in the months following and is expected to be complete in September 2019.
conclusionsFindings will extend the literature by revealing whether delivering a lifestyle intervention via an online social network is an effective alternative to the traditional modality of clinic visits, given the former might be more scalable and feasible to implement in settings that cannot support clinic-based models.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT02646618; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02646618 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6v20waTFW).
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