| Autor: |
Petra Hanson, Charlotte Summers, Arjun Panesar, Dominic Oduro-Donkor, Maria Lange, Vinod Menon, Thomas M Barber |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
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| Zdroj: |
JMIR Formative Research, Vol 5, Iss 9, p e29110 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2561-326X |
| DOI: |
10.2196/29110 |
| Popis: |
BackgroundObesity underlies much chronic disease. Digitalization of obesity management provides an opportunity to innovate our traditional model of health care delivery within this setting, and to transform its scalability potentially to the population level. ObjectiveThe objective was to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the Low Carb Program app for weight loss, applied within our hospital-based (tier 3) obesity service. Due to the disrupting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our obesity service, we compared the clinical outcomes from the Low Carb Program app applied in the context of remote patient appointments over the telephone with the prepandemic traditional standard of care. MethodsWe invited patients who attended our hospital-based obesity service to engage with the Low Carb Program smartphone app. We combined this approach with remote delivery (over the telephone) of obesity management from medical and psychology members of our obesity team during the COVID-19 pandemic. Outcome variables included changes in body weight and changes in HbA1c as a marker of glycemic control. We compared data from the Low Carb Program group with a retrospective control group (n=126) that had received traditional face-to-face obesity management from our team without concomitant use of the Low Carb Program app in the pre–COVID-19 era. T test comparisons were employed, with P |
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