The effect of phone text messaging on the women's body mass index and food habits

• Register: IRCT
• Last refreshed on: 22 February 2018
• Main ID: IRCT201204029360N1
• Date of registration: 2012-04-08
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Research Deputy of Tehran University of Medical Sciences
• Public title: The effect of phone text messaging on the women's body mass index and food habits
• Scientific title: The effect of phone text messaging on the Iranian overweight and obese women's body mass index and food habits
• Date of first enrolment: 2011-09-28
• Target sample size: 80
• Recruitment status: Complete
• URL: http://en.irct.ir/trial/9903
• Study type: interventional
• Study design: Randomization: Not randomized, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Prevention.
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

• Name: Somaye Faghanipour
• Affiliation: Center for Nursing Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

• Name: Eftekhar alsadat Hadjikazemi
• Affiliation: Center for Nursing Care research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Inclusion criteria: Participants were supposed to have their own mobile phone and enable to send and receive Persian text messages via their own cellular phone. Other inclusion criteria were as follow: being at the age range of 25 to 55 years old, being overweight or obese (BMI = 25) not taking medications known to cause weight gain, not being pregnant or breastfeeding, not being in the 6-months post-partum period, not being under specific diet or exercise program.
Exclusion criteria: Participants were excluded if they have a serious physical and mental illness, get pregnant or enter in a special diet or exercise program during the study.
Exclusion criteria:

Age minimum: 25 years
Age maximum: 55 years
Gender: Female

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Obesity, unspecified

Obesity.
Obesity, unspecified

Intervention(s)

Intervention group: Attending a face to face educational session and receipting a booklet contained food calorie chart and strategies and recommendations for weight control and receiving two interactive messages daily about weight control for two months, also they were asked to send weekly self monitored weight for 8 weeks and received feedback.

Intervention 1: Control group: Attending a face to face educational session and receipting a booklet contained food calorie chart and strategies and recommendations for weight control. Intervention 2: Intervention group: Attending a face to face educational session and receipting a booklet contained food calorie chart and strategies and recommendations for weight control and receiving two interactive messages daily about weight control for two months, also they were asked to send weekly self monitored weight for 8 weeks and received feedback.

Control group: Attending a face to face educational session and receipting a booklet contained food calorie chart and strategies and recommendations for weight control

Primary Outcome(s)

Body mass index (BMI). Timepoint: before intervention and after intervention(after 3 months). Method of measurement: Total body weights and heights were obtained with a digital adult calibrated scale (model 708, Seca, Germany, 0.01 kg) and a wall-mounted stadiometer (model 206 Seca, 0.1cm), respectively. Body mass index (BMI; in kg/m2) was calculated.

Food habits. Timepoint: before intervention and after intervention(after 3 months). Method of measurement: self-making food habits questionnair.

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Research Deputy of Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date:
Contact:

Tehran University of Medical Sciences