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Efficacy Trial of Healthy Together ("Juntos")

Efficacy Trial of Healthy Together "Juntos": A Family-based Digital Lifestyle Intervention for Hispanic Adolescents and Their Parents

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 Mar 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of a family-based digital (web and mobile phone-based) program known as Healthy Together ("Juntos") in preventing increases in body mass index and improving moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, diet quality, and percentage body fat among Hispanic adolescents.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
750 (estimated)
First submitted
28 Jun 2024
Start date
Feb 2025
Primary completion date
May 2029
Lead sponsor
University of Miami
Diseases
Obesity
NCT number
NCT06489262

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 750
  • From Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, May 2029
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Other illness

  • Has a parent-reported chronic medical condition (e.g., type 2 diabetes) that requires more intensive intervention;
  • Has a parent-reported cognitive or developmental delay (e.g., Down Syndrome) that may interfere with understanding program materials.
    • Parent

Other

  • Adolescent
  • Has BMI \<5th (underweight) or ≥95th percentile (obesity);
  • Has parent-reported responses on a physical activity readiness questionnaire (PAR-Q) that indicates a serious health issue, and a physician does not approve participation;
  • Provides PAR-Q responses that indicate a serious health issue and a physician does not approve participation;
  • Reports family plans to move out of South Florida during the study follow-up period

Who the study is looking for

  • Adolescent
  • Lives with participating biological parent or legal guardian;
  • Self-identifies as Hispanic;
  • Is between the ages of 12-15years old;
  • Has access to a smartphone;
  • Does not meet recommendations for physical activity as determined by a validated 2-item screener;
  • Does not meet recommendations for daily fruit and vegetable intake (proxy for diet quality) as determined by a validated 2-item screener;
  • Exceeds recommendations for screen time (proxy for sedentary behavior) as determined by a validated 6-item screener
    • Parent
  • Is the biological parent or legal guardian of and lives with the adolescent;
  • Self-identifies as Hispanic;
  • Has access to a smartphone;

Age in the registry: 12 years to 15 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
University of Miami
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MiamiUnited StatesRecruiting

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