None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The study seeks to test the efficacy of a variety of strategies to encourage the use of a telephone coaching service to encourage healthy eating, physical activity and weight loss among adults in the community. It is hypothesized that telephone, emailed and mailed information about the service will be more effective then no information about the service. The use of the telephone service as well as any changes in physical activity, healthy eating or weight status will be assessed by telephone interview 3 months following baseline data collection.
Interventions
The 3 month trial consists of 2 intervention groups 1 A printed brochure providing information about a free healthy eating, physical activity or weight loss telephone coaching service mailed to participants once. 2. A electronic brochure providing information about a free healthy eating, physical activity or weight loss telephone coaching service e-mailed to participants once. It is not compulsory for participants in each group to read or attend to information provided in each format (mail, or e
The 3 month trial consists of 2 intervention groups 1 A printed brochure providing information about a free healthy eating, physical activity or weight loss telephone coaching service mailed to participants once. 2. A electronic brochure providing information about a free healthy eating, physical activity or weight loss telephone coaching service e-mailed to participants once. It is not compulsory for participants in each group to read or attend to information provided in each format (mail, or email)or to contact the coaching service. The use of materials and the telephone coaching service will be at the discretion of participants
Sponsors
Luke Wolfenden
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants of a community research cohort with a self reported BMI of >25, or consuming fewer then 2 serves of fruit or 5 serves of vegetables per day (assessed using items from the NSW Health Survey), or engaging in insufficient levels of physical activity (assessed using the active australia survey).
Exclusion criteria
Participants who can not understand written and spoken english.
Outcome results
None listed