App Coaching Parents to Help Children with Obesity Eat Less and Move More
Tests a parent coaching app to lower energy intake in children with high BMI.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Early Life Intervention in Pediatrics Supported by E-health
Key facts
- Where
- Bern, SwitzerlandSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 6 and 12 years old?
Source: NCT06208345, who can take part
Where in Switzerland
- Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University HospitalBern, SwitzerlandTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
- Trial code
- NCT06208345
- Record updated
- 18 February 2026
- Original description
Childhood obesity in early life contributes to the development of specific NCDs, i.e. adult obesity. Unhealthy diet and low level of physical activity are lifestyle risk behaviors associated with chronic, systemic inflammation, which promotes the pathogenesis of NCDs. Early preventive measures to improve lifestyle behavior are of utmost importance. The aim of ELIPSE-I is to assess whether an eHealth application intervention for parents is feasible and efficacious in lowering total energy intake/total energy expenditure (TEI/TEE) ratio in their children with BMI >97 centile (ELIPSE-I).Read full original descriptionShow less
Early Life Intervention in Pediatrics Supported by E-health (ELIPSE I): Coaching Parents to Lower Obesity in Children. A Single-blind Randomized Controlled Parallel-group Clinical Trial.
Childhood obesity in early life contributes to the development of specific NCDs, i.e. adult obesity. Unhealthy diet and low level of physical activity are lifestyle risk behaviors associated with chronic, systemic inflammation, which promotes the pathogenesis of NCDs. Early preventive measures to improve lifestyle behavior are of utmost importance. The aim of ELIPSE-I is to assess whether an eHealth application intervention for parents is feasible and efficacious in lowering total energy intake/total energy expenditure (TEI/TEE) ratio in their children with BMI >97 centile (ELIPSE-I).
Inclusion: German speaking parents; Any ethnic background/race; Children should live/grow-up in the same household as the parental participant; Children with an age- and sex-matched BMI >97 centile according to Swiss national growth charts; Children who attend the outpatient weight management clinic at the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University Children's Hospital Bern; Signed informed consent form from parent(s).
Exclusion: Known congenital disease affecting musculo-skeletal, cardiac or pulmonary function; Syndromic obesity; Participation in another clinical trial targeting similar objectives.