Study |
Reasons for exclusion |
Ferrer-Roca 2004 [55] |
The cellular phone intervention was used for blood glucose monitoring rather than weight loss |
Park 2005 [41] |
All participants had a chronic condition (diabetes) |
Sung 2005 [46] |
The intervention was not for weight management |
Tufano 2005 [48] |
Review paper |
Scherr 2006 [44] |
All participants had a chronic condition (cardiac disease) |
Joo 2007 [32] |
No control group |
Hurling 2007 [31] |
Some participants had a BMI below 25 at baseline |
Kim 2008 [34] |
All participants had a chronic condition (diabetes) |
Morak 2008 [3] |
No control group |
Gerber 2009 [18] |
Did not include outcome measure related to weight loss |
Park 2009 [5] |
All participants had a chronic condition (hypertension) |
Vespasiani 2009 [49] |
All participants had a chronic condition (diabetes) |
Wohlers 2009 [50] |
No outcome measure related to weight loss (this was a usability study) |
Heron 2010 [20] |
Review paper |
Kaufman 2010 [33] |
Review paper |
McCrady-Spitzer 2010 [38] |
Review paper |
McGraa 2010 [39] |
Some participants had a BMI below 25 at baseline |
Mattila 2010 [21] |
Review paper |
Mattila 2010 [21] |
No control group |
Prestwich 2010 [42] |
Some participants had a BMI below 25 at baseline |
Rossi 2010 [43] |
All participants had a chronic condition (diabetes) |
Svensson 2010 [47] |
Review paper |
Zheng 2010 [51] |
Descriptive paper of the intervention |
Bexelius 2011 [25] |
Some participants had a BMI below 25 at baseline |
Boucher 2011 [27] |
Editorial |
Daley 2011 [28] |
No cellular phone intervention used |
Fukuoka 2011 [29] |
No control group |
Hitman 2011 [30] |
Editorial |
Lee 2011 [35] |
Some participants had a BMI below 25 at baseline |
Maddison 2011 [36] |
Study protocol |
Mori 2011 [40] |
All participants had a chronic condition (diabetes) |
Seto 2011 [45] |
All participants had a chronic condition (heart failure) |
Blasco 2012 [26] |
All participants had a chronic condition (acute coronary syndrome) |