The Mobile Lifestyle Intervention for Food and Exercise Study
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Official title
Increasing Social Support for Weight Loss Through the Use of Social Gaming and Points: The Mobile Intervention for Food and Exercise (mLIFE) Study
Brief summary
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The goal of the study is to examine long term sustained weight loss digital intervention in a diverse cohort of adults with overweight/obesity. The intervention includes social gaming (using game-like elements in nongame contexts to promote supportive social interactions and openness to positive behavioral influences) to reward behaviors, such as self-monitoring and social support. Investigators will accomplish objectives and test hypotheses by following two specific primary aims: 1. Determine if the intervention plus gaming produces significantly more weight loss at 12 months than the same intervention without gaming among 240 adults with overweight or obesity and ≥3 T2DM risk factors. 2. Examine the differences in social support provision and receipt between groups at 12 months.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT05176847
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 243 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Podcasts and tips of the day (within app) Behavioral
- mLIFE app (self-regulation features) Behavioral
- mLIFE app (social support features) Behavioral
- standard mLIFE app (social support features) Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 65 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 28, 2022
- Primary completion
- Jul 11, 2024
- Completion
- Sep 29, 2025
- Last update posted
- Jan 14, 2026
2022 – 2025
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of South Carolina | Columbia | South Carolina | 29208 | — |
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- Last update posted Jan 14, 2026 · Synced Sep 2, 2026
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