. . SPORTS MEDICINE : MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: OBESITY : APPS : RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT : EDUCATION: COLLEGE: NAMED COLLEGES: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS. MEDICAL SCHOOL : MEDICAL: CONDTIONS: STRESS : TECHNOLOGY: TELECOMMUNICATIONS: SMARTPHONES: UMass Medical School and WPI Share $2 Million NIH Grant to Develop Stress Eating App . . UMass Medical School and WPI Share $2 Million NIH Grant to Develop Stress Eating App The smartphone application will help patients struggling with obesity and emotional eating February 2, 2015 Worcester Polytechnic Institute http://www.wpi.edu/news/20145/tuluapp.html . . Targeting the intersection of stress and overeating, an interdisciplinary research team at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a $2 million award from the National Institutes of Health to create an interactive smartphone application to help patients struggling with obesity and emotional eating. . Development of the "RELAX" application and a pilot clinical study to evaluate its effectiveness will be led by Sherry Pagoto, PhD, associate professor of medicine at UMMS, and Bengisu Tulu, PhD, associate professor in the WPI Foisie School of Business, joint principal investigators for the grant. . "Most commercial apps available today focus on tracking diet and exercise, but do not help the user understand why they are eating so much and/or exercising so little," Dr. Pagoto said. "Our clinical and research experience suggests that stress is a very common trigger for overeating and it is a barrier to exercise." . RELAX will have two components: a mobile application that will enable patients to track their daily activities using a smartphone and a web-based tool clinicians can use to access patient information to help inform treatment. . "We want to use technology to help patients in real time, during their daily activities, and also to enhance the effectiveness of the time they spend face-to-face with their physician or counselor," Dr. Tulu said. . Using text inputs, barcode scanning, and GPS technology, the RELAX patient app will track eating patterns, daily activities, exercise, patient-mood, and stress inducing events. The app will provide the patient with an itemized list of foods consumed, indicate the times of day identified as high-stress moments, and illustrate the relationship between food intake and stress. The information collected will help the user to better understand his or her habits when it comes to emotional or stress eating. . . The complete article may be read at the URL above. . . 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