Smartphone App–Based Eating Behavior Monitoring and Feedback Intervention for Glucocorticoid-Induced Appetite Increase in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Takashi Yamaguchi   ^{1 *} , BPharm, PhD ;   Nobuyuki Takahashi   ^{1 *} , BPharm, PhD ;   Ryohei Inanaga   ^{2, 3 *} , MD ;   Ryuhei So   ⁴ , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Hiroe Kikuchi   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Hisashi Noma   ⁶ , MPH, PhD ;   Hiroyuki Sasai   ⁷ , PhD ;   Kazuhiro Kamada   ⁸ , MD ;   Tomohiro Sugimoto   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Hiroshi Tsushima   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Takanori Ichikawa   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Hirofumi Miyake   ¹² , MD ;   Shunichi Fujita   ¹³ , MD, PhD ;   Keisuke Ono   ¹⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Yusuke Miwa   ¹⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Anna Hasegawa   ¹⁶ , MD ;   Naoki Suzuki   ¹⁷ , MD ;   Akira Onishi   ¹⁸ , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Toshihiro Matsui   ¹⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Ryu Watanabe   ²⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Yasuhiro Hasegawa   ²¹ , MD, PhD ;   Rei Ono   ²² , BPharm, PhD ;   Takeo Isozaki   ²² , MD, PhD ;   Yuichi Ishikawa   ²³ , MD, MPH ;   Nobuyuki Yajima   ^{3, 15} , MPH, MD, PhD ;   Noriaki Kurita   ^{3, 15, 24} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Hospital Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Showa Medical University, Shinagawa-ku, Japan

² Department of Nephrology, Shin-yurigaoka General Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

³ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Okayama Psychiatric Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

⁵ Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan Institute for Health Security, Shinjuku-ku, Japan

⁶ Department of Interdisciplinary Statistical Mathematics, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tachikawa, Japan

⁷ Research Team for Promoting Independence and Mental Health, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Itabashi-ku, Japan

⁸ Department of Rheumatology, Endocrinology and Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

⁹ Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

¹⁰ Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni, Japan

¹¹ Department of Medicine (Neurology and Rheumatology), School of Medicine, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan

¹² Department of General Internal Medicine, Tenri Hospital, Tenri, Japan

¹³ Department of Rheumatology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

¹⁴ Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Kyorin University, Mitaka, Japan

¹⁵ Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Showa Medical University, Shinagawa-ku, Japan

¹⁶ Department of Rheumatology, Dokkyo Medical University, Mibu, Japan

¹⁷ Department of Stem Cell and Immune Regulation, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

¹⁸ Department of Advanced Medicine for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

¹⁹ Department of Rheumatology Research, Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology, National Hospital Organization Sagamihara National Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan

²⁰ Department of Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

²¹ Department of Rheumatology, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan

²² Department of Pathogenesis and Translational Medicine, Graduate School of Pharmacy, Showa Medical University, Shinagawa-ku, Japan

²³ The First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan

²⁴ Department of Innovative Research and Education for Clinicians and Trainees (DiRECT), Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, Japan

*these authors contributed equally