Study Assessing the Contribution of Telemedicine Monitoring in Addition to Standard Follow-up of an Obesity Program

Obesity became a major public health issue in France. In 2019, obesity represented 5% of annual costs in health and was responsible of a 2.7% lost in France's Gross Domestic Product. In the scop of french health ministry's recommendations for obese patients'care and the territorial healthcare program; Saint-François' hospital set up 3 healthcare programs: "medical obesity"," interventional" and "post surgery". A very few number of studies aim to asse the efficacity of a long-term telemedicine follow-up after a bariatric medical care program. STROBERRY Study is a Prospective, monocentric, randomized, open-label study assessing the contribution of a long term, telemedical, personalized, educative quarterly, follow-up (4 years follow up), in addition to standard follow-up, strengthening an Obesity program in Berry (FRANCE). The principal objective is to study the effectiveness of a follow-up reinforced with telemedicine in addition to the standard multidisciplinary annual follow-up on the rate of patients lost to follow-up after initial or second line management in a multidisciplinary bariatric medical program

Inclusion criteria

• Woman or Male aged from 18 to 60 years old included
• Patient in obesity (BMI> or = 30)
• Patient who has completed a multidisciplinary medical program for obesity management, as a first- or second-line intention (after initial obesity management) at the investigating center
• Affiliation to a social security scheme
• Patient informed of the study and who had signed the informed consent form

Non Inclusion Criteria:

• Management of obesity within the framework of an exclusively interventional program, without redirection to a medical program
• Managing obesity as part of a post-operative program
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women
• Patients deprived of liberty
• Patients under legal protection