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| Noom Inc. | INDUSTRY |
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Many people who use GLP-1 medications (such as semaglutide or tirzepatide) achieve meaningful weight loss, but maintaining that weight loss off after stopping the medication can be very challenging. Researchers at Tufts University are conducting a study to learn whether a digital lifestyle program can help people maintain their weight loss after they stop taking a GLP-1 medication.
Adults who have recently stopped a GLP-1 medication may be eligible to participate. Participants will be randomly assigned to either receive access to a digital program or to continue with usual care. The study lasts 12 months and is fully remote. All participants will receive a Bluetooth scale to track weight from home and will complete short online questionnaires several times over the year.
By taking part, participants can help researchers better understand how to support long-term weight maintenance in a way that is affordable, accessible, and sustainable. Participants are compensated for their time, and involvement may help improve care for others with similar experiences.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Noom® Smart device Application Subscription | Experimental |
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| Usual care | No Intervention | Usual care for weight loss maintenance includes ongoing nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle counseling. However, the implementation of this standard of care is highly variable and dependent on the provider's discretion and availability. In many cases it is nothing. In some cases, the patient may have 1-2 office or remote visits with a provider or dietitian who educates the patient on nutrition and exercise behaviors. "Usual care" is left to each providers' discretion and will identify how much counseling (if any) participants receive through self-report. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Digital Behavioral Application | Behavioral | Noom® provides well-established behavioral strategies for weight loss and weight maintenance, such as self-monitoring of diet, exercise, and weight. What Noom® adds is education on the physiological, psychological, social, and environmental factors that influence eating behavior and tools that increase self-efficacy for dealing with those stimuli. For example, Noom® has a lesson that defines social triggers, explains the influence social triggers have on motivation to eat, and asks the participant to identify their own social triggers and a plan for managing triggers should they come up. Then the app prompts participants to report back on how they managed or struggled to manage a trigger and responds accordingly. Participants will be prescribed 15 minutes of use per day per Noom® recommendations, which includes interactive lessons, food logging, and weigh-ins. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Percentage of weight loss maintained | Percentage of weight loss maintained over 12 months following GLP-1 medication cessation measured using study-provided Bluetooth scale. | 12-months |
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| Diet quality | III (Diet History Questionnaire III): Self-report of eating behaviors in questionnaire: 135 food and beverage items Scores are used to calculate HEI-2015: Scale: 0-100 Higher scores indicate better diet quality and improved compliance with federal health and nutrition recommendations https://epi.grants.cancer.gov/dhq3/ | 12-months |
Inclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Riti Sarangi, MPH | Contact | (617) 636-0832 | Ritimukta.Sarangi@tufts.edu | |
| NICHE Lab Study Team | Contact | (469) 240-9112 | niche@tufts.edu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen, PhD, MPH | Tufts University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| This study is conducted remotely | Boston | Massachusetts | 02111 | United States |
Sharing of IPD will be at the discretion of the funder.
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| ID | Term |
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| D009765 | Obesity |
| D050177 | Overweight |
| D005247 | Feeding Behavior |
| ID | Term |
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| D044343 | Overnutrition |
| D009748 | Nutrition Disorders |
| D009750 | Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases |
| D001835 | Body Weight |
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This is a 2-arm parallel group open-label randomized controlled trial (RCT) with randomization stratified on 3 factors: (1) prior use of digital behavioral support (Y/N); (2) amount of weight loss (kg) while on GLP-1 (5-10% body weight vs. >10% body weight); and (3) weight status (with vs without obesity, obesity defined as BMI ≥ 25).
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| Food Noise |
Self-report of Food Noise questionnaire Scoring note: Total score = sum of 5 items (0-20); higher = more food noise. Attribution to include on the instrument (recommended): Food Noise Questionnaire (FNQ). Diktas HE et al. (2025). |
| 12-months |
| PROMIS Global Health | Self-report of 16-item PROMIS Global Health questionnaire; assesses physical, mental, and social health using standardized T-scores Higher scores mean more of what is measured Source: HealthMeasures - PROMIS Health Organization Lowest value: 20 Highest: 80 | 12-months |
| Treatment satisfaction questionnaire | Self-report adaptation of the 9-item Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM), adapted to a digital behavioral application context Bharmal, M., Payne, K., Atkinson, M. J., Desrosiers, M. P., Morisky, D. E., & Gemmen, E. (2009). Validation of an abbreviated Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM-9) among patients on antihypertensive medications. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 7(36). Range: 0 to 100 Higher Scores = Higher Satisfaction | 12-months |
| Healthy Eating and Weight Self Efficacy | Self-report of Healthy Eating and Weight Self Efficacy Scale (HEWSE) 11 items: Higher scores indicate higher self-efficacy Lindsay Wilson-Barlow, Tishanna R. Hollins, James R. Clopton, Construction and validation of the healthy eating and weight self-efficacy (HEWSE) scale, Eating Behaviors, Volume 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 490-492, ISSN 1471-0153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2014.06.004. | 12-months |
| Mindful Eating | Self-report of Mindful Eating Scale in questionnaire Marion van Beekum, Rebecca Shankland, Angélique Rodhain, Margaux Robert, Camille Marchand, et al.. Development and validation of the mindful eating scale (mind-eat scale) in a general population. Appetite, 2024, 199, pp.107398. ⟨10.1016/j.appet.2024.107398⟩. ⟨hal-04582024⟩ 4- or 5-point Likert scale: Higher overall score indicate healthier, more conscious relationship with food | 12-months |
| Overall wellbeing | Self-report of PERMA Profiler in questionnaire Butler, J., & Kern, M.L. (2016). The PERMA-Profiler: A brief multidimensional measure of flourishing. International Journal of Wellbeing, 6(3), 1-48. doi:10.5502/ijw.v6i3.1 23 questions: 11-point Likert scale (0 to 10) Higher the score, the higher the functioning in positive pillars, in negative dimensions lower score indicate better state (reverse-scored) | 12-months |
| Tobacco, alcohol, prescription medications, and other substance use | Self-report of Tobacco, alcohol, prescription medications, and other substance use (TAPS-2) in questionnaire McNeely, J., Wu, L. T., Subramaniam, G., Sharma, G., Cathers, L. A., Svikis, D., & Schwartz, R. P. (2016). Performance of the tobacco, alcohol, prescription medication, and other substance use (TAPS) tool for substance use screening in primary care patients. Annals of Internal Medicine, 165(10), 690-699. Scoring: 0 (No use), 1 (problem use) and 2 or more higher risk https://nida.nih.gov/taps2/ | 12-months |
| Sexual Wellbeing | Self-report on the 5-item Short Sexual Wellbeing scale in questionnaire Gerymski R. Short Sexual Well-Being Scale - a cross-sectional validation among transgender and cisgender people. Health Psychol Rep. 2020;9(3):276-287. Published 2020 Dec 31. doi:10.5114/hpr.2021.102349 Scale: 1-7 points per question Range: 7-49 Higher score means higher level of sexual wellbeing | 12-months |
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| Signs and Symptoms |
| D013568 | Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms |
| D001522 | Behavior, Animal |
| D001519 | Behavior |