ArticleContemporary clinical trials2019
An addiction-based mobile health weight loss intervention: protocol of a randomized controlled trial.
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- Smartphone-Based Interventions to Reduce Sedentary Behavior and Promote Physical Activity Using Integrated Dynamic Models: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Pooled it
- Designing a childhood obesity preventive intervention using the multiphase optimization strategy: The Healthy Bodies Project.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2023Trial
- An addiction-based digital weight loss intervention: A multi-centre randomized controlled trial.Pediatric obesity · 2023Trial
- Body Appreciation and Weight Control Behaviors in Overweight Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study Informing a CBT-Based Health Promotion Model.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2026Article
- Leveraging Telemedicine to Manage Adolescent Obesity: A Systematic Literature Review.Health science reports · 2025Article
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- Usability and Engagement Testing of mHealth Apps in Paediatric Obesity: A Narrative Review of Current Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Food addiction, executive function and mood in adolescents with obesity seeking treatment.Appetite · 2021Article
- Healthy Lifestyle Management of Pediatric Obesity with a Hybrid System of Customized Mobile Technology: The PediaFit Pilot Project.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Kids N Fitness: A Group-based Pediatric Weight Management Curriculum Adapted for a Clinical Care Model.Journal of pediatrics & child health care · 2020Article
- Feasibility of a mHealth Approach to Nutrition Counseling in an Appalachian State.Journal of personalized medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe notion of obesity as an addictive process is controversial. However, studies show that between 5.9 and 30.7% of adolescents with obesity report food or eating addiction. Few weight management interventions have tested techniques based on addiction medicine principles.
methodsThis multi-center randomized control trial (RCT) is designed to test the effectiveness of a mobile health (mHealth) weight-loss intervention based on addiction principles, such as withdrawal and tolerance, in a sample of 180 adolescents (ages 14-18) recruited from four pediatric weight management clinics in Southern California. Akin to a Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) design evaluating multicomponent behavioral interventions, we will compare the combination of an app + phone coaching (App+Coach) to app alone (App) and in-clinic multi-disciplinary (Clinic) intervention arms. The primary outcome is mean change in zBMI and %BMI
conclusionsNew and creative approaches are needed to address pediatric obesity. If successful, this RCT may provide an innovative and cost-effective mHealth approach, based on addiction methods, for weight loss among adolescents with overweight and obesity.
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