Adherence
Telemedicine (video visits) delivers clinically significant weight loss outcomes equivalent to in-person care for patients with overweight or obesity receiving medically managed treatment with anti-obesity medications.
If you are using weight loss medication, seeing your doctor via video is just as effective for losing weight as seeing them in person. In fact, video visits might allow you to see your provider more often (median 5 times vs 4) because it is easier to schedule, which supports better adherence to your treatment plan.
Patients on anti-obesity medications who were followed for 6 months via video or video plus in-person visits (hybrid) experienced clinically significant weight loss... The median percent weight changes over 6 months were not significantly different among cohorts: -4.3%... in the in-person cohort, -5.6%... in the hybrid group, and -5.8%... in the video cohort.
Why this rating
Retrospective observational study with a relatively small sample size (n=245) and self-reported weights in video cohorts, limiting causal inference.
Source
Weight Loss Outcomes With Telemedicine During COVID-19
Beverly G. Tchang et al. · Frontiers in Endocrinology · 2022
DOI 10.3389/fendo.2022.793290
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