Daniel O. Clark|NiCole R. Keith|Michael Weiner|Huiping Xu
Outcomes of an RCT of videoconference vs. in?person or in?clinic nutrition and exercise in midlife adults with obesity
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis|Regenstrief Institute|Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis|Regenstrief Institute|Regenstrief Institute|Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis|Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
new communication technologies shown promise lifestyle weight loss interventions may effective leveraging facetoface communications study reported sought test whether weight loss programme attendance outcomes greater offered inperson community sites remotely via videoconference vs federally qualified health centers fqhcs threearm randomized trial among 150 fqhc adults intervention delivery communitysites via videoconference tested clinicbased lifestyle intervention enhanced usual care euctwice weekly nutrition topic reviewed exercise sessions held 20week programme delivered either community settings via videoconference primary outcome proportion participants losing 2 kg 6 end treatment 12 months intenttotreat analysesmean sd age 53 years 82 women 65 africanamerican 50 reported 18000 less household income 49 tested low health literacy mean sd body mass index 39 kg m2 proportion losing 2 kg weight community site videoconference euc groups 33 34 24 respectively 6 months 29 34 29 12 months differences reached significance attendance poor groups 45 community site 58 videoconference 16 euc participants attended least one sessionvideoconference communitybased delivery effective fqhcbased weight loss programme