ArticleObesity science & practice2020
Web-based virtual reality to enhance behavioural skills training and weight loss in a commercial online weight management programme: The Experience Success randomized trial.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Evaluating the use of virtual reality for weight management: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Aspects of Digital Interventions That Successfully Support Weight Loss: Systematic Review With Component Network Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Applications of Mobile Health Technologies to Address Cardiometabolic Health Disparities in the United States: A Systematic Review.Ethnicity & disease · 2023Pooled it
- Virtual body image exercises for people with obesity - results on eating behavior and body perception of the ViTraS pilot study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2025Trial
- Assessing the Clinical Efficacy of a Virtual Reality Tool for the Treatment of Obesity: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Insights from user experience and evaluation of a mobile health nutrition intervention for children with autism: A qualitative study.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2024Article
- Can Digital Technologies Be Useful for Weight Loss in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity? A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Factors Associated With Risky Drinking Decisions in a Virtual Reality Alcohol Prevention Simulation: Structural Equation Model.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2024Article
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- Using Personalized Avatars as an Adjunct to an Adult Weight Loss Management Program: Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Attitude of Nutrition Experts Toward Psychotherapy and Virtual Reality as Part of Obesity Treatment-An Online Survey.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Evaluation of intervention components to maximize outcomes of behavioral obesity treatment delivered online: A factorial experiment following the multiphase optimization strategy framework.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Article
- Web-based virtual reality to enhance behavioural skills training and weight loss in a commercial online weight management programme: The Experience Success randomized trial.Obesity science & practice · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveCommercial online weight management programmes are popular and easily accessible but often lack training in empirically validated behaviour change strategies and produce suboptimal outcomes. This study evaluated the effects of a Web-based virtual reality (VR) programme for enhancing behavioural skills training and weight loss when offered as an adjunct to a commercial online weight management programme.
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resultsBoth groups achieved statistically significant weight loss across the trial, with no difference in mean ± standard error (SE) weight loss between WW and WW + ES at 3 months (2.7 ± 1.1 kg vs. 4.2 ± 1.1 kg, respectively;
conclusionsThis study demonstrates the potential of Web-based VR skills training to enhance outcomes of commercial online weight management programmes that are widely accessible. Compared with traditional didactic methods for online skills training, VR simulation provides opportunities to learn behavioural skills via modelling and experiment with skills in real-world situations. More research is needed to identify specific behavioural mechanisms by which ES may improve outcomes.
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