Family Digital Program to Support Healthy Weight in Hispanic Teens
Tests a family web and phone program for weight, activity and diet in Hispanic adolescents.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- University of Miami
- Where
- Miami, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Efficacy Trial of Healthy Together ("Juntos")
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 750 people, planned
- Started
- 28 Feb 2025
- Expected to end
- 31 May 2029
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets no study treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Healthy Together ("Juntos")
- Record updated
- 23 March 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for Hispanic teenagers aged 12-15 who do not get enough physical activity or fruits and vegetables and have too much screen time, together with a parent or guardian who lives with them.
- Age
- Teenagers 12-15 years old. The parent or guardian has no age limit stated.
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Teenager's body mass index must be from the 5th up to below the 95th percentile (not underweight, not obese).
Main reasons for not taking part
- Teenager is underweight or has obesity (BMI below the 5th or at or above the 95th percentile)
- Teenager has a chronic medical condition, such as type 2 diabetes, that needs more intensive care
- A physical activity readiness questionnaire shows a serious health issue and a physician does not approve taking part
- Teenager has a cognitive or developmental delay, such as Down Syndrome, that may get in the way of understanding program materials
- Family plans to move out of South Florida during follow-up
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- 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
Who cannot take part
- 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
- 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
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 12 and 15 years old?
Where in United States
- University of MiamiMiami, United StatesContact: Sara St George, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
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.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Healthy Together ("Juntos")Treatment being tested
Participants will receive the Healthy Together ("Juntos") digital intervention. The six-month intervention includes an "intensive" phase comprised of eight modules and coaching sessions delivered in the first three months and a "maintenance phase" comprised of three modules and coaching sessions delivered in the subsequent three months.
- ControlNo study treatment, for comparison
This group will receive a digital standard of care - a list of publicly available lifestyle apps and websites that they may access at their discretion.
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?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Efficacy Trial of Healthy Together "Juntos": A Family-based Digital Lifestyle Intervention for Hispanic Adolescents and Their Parents
- Plain-language title
- Family Digital Program to Support Healthy Weight in Hispanic TeensGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 12 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06489262, who can take part
- Record updated
- 23 March 2026