Family practice
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Effectiveness of randomized controlled trial of a mobile app to promote healthy lifestyle in obese and overweight patients.
Health advice is useful for establishing behavioural changes, but such changes tend not to last. It would therefore be good to identify mechanisms for reinforcing advice and one option is the use of information and communication technologies. Given the limited evidence on the effectiveness of such technologies, we decided to conduct a clinical trial to assess the efficacy of a mobile application (app) for supporting the provision health advice for weight loss. ⋯ NCT02308176.