NCT05678179

The Feasibility and Acceptability of Utilizing Telehealth for Increasing Access to Bariatric Surgery

Completed NA Last updated 7 January 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Telehealth in Telehealth in 50 participants. Completed in 27 March 2024.

Timeline

6 February 2023

Primary endpoint
27 March 2024

27 March 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Mayo Clinic
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	50
Start date	6 February 2023
Primary completion	27 March 2024
Estimated completion	27 March 2024
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Telehealth
• In Person (Face-2-Face)

Conditions studied

• Telehealth — all drugs for Telehealth →
• Face-2-Face (F2F) — all drugs for Face-2-Face (F2F) →

Sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Who can join

Adults 18 to 80, any sex, with Telehealth or Face-2-Face (F2F). Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Bariatric surgery is recommended as the most efficacious treatment for patients living with obesity (body mass index \[BMI; kg/m2\] \> 40; or BMI 35-39.9 with related medical conditions). Adoption of telehealth services offers an opportunity to reduce barriers and expand access to high quality specialty care for patients considering bariatric surgery for treatment of obesity. Two important advances in telehealth services occurred during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Specifically, the patient's home is now the origin site for all services where patients are no longer required to travel to a designated telehealth location, and the use of telehealth has expanded to multidisciplinary health care teams. Our bariatric surgery care team has gained valuable experience using a combination of face-to-face (F2F) and telehealth visits for multidisciplinary evaluation in preparation for bariatric surgery since March 2020. Appointments that do not require a physical exam like nutrition, psychology, group education, and medical visits after completion of pre-operative testing are particularly amenable to telehealth services. Increased use of telehealth has the potential to reduce barriers to care (e.g., lack of access to accredited bariatric surgery treatment centers, extended travel time for multiple pre-surgery appointments), increase adherence to required program visits, and increase patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction variables may include reduced time away from work, flexibility in appointment scheduling, and reduced physical demands of multiple F2F visits. A necessary first step is to demonstrate that the protocol outlined below can be successfully implemented in a real-world clinical setting and is deemed acceptable by patients preparing for bariatric surgery.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.