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UMass Medical School and WPI Share $2 Million NIH Grant to Develop Stress Eating App

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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

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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.

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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.

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"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."

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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