NCT07087808Recruiting
Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families: Virtual Family Intervention for Adolescent Obesity
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Jul 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The purpose of the research is to evaluate the digital wellness nurse (DWN) app to find out if it is helpful in delivering the FIT Families intervention. The study is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 32 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 23 Jun 2025
- Start date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Primary completion date
- 14 Nov 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Machine and Human Interaction
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT07087808
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 32
- From 20 Jun 2025 to the primary completion date, 14 Nov 2025
- 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
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Prior treatment
- Receiving or planned to receive other obesity treatments (e.g., pharmacologic treatment, bariatric surgery) within the next 6 months
Other illness
- Exclusion criteria for youth only:
- Obesity secondary to medication use for another medical condition (e.g., steroids, antipsychotics)
- Obesity secondary to a chronic condition (e.g., Down syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Cushing's syndrome)
- Mental/emotional disorder (e.g., schizophrenia or other psychosis), suicidal, or homicidal
- Serious cognitive impairment (e.g., inability to complete questionnaires)
- Medical condition where weight loss is contraindicated
Other
- Pregnancy (e.g., caregivers and youth will be asked each week if they expect if they are pregnant)
Who the study is looking for
- Adolescents (ages 12-17)
- Adolescent BMI ≥ 90th percentile for age and gender
- Primary caregiver either overweight (BMI 25.0 to 29.9) or obese (BMI ≥ 30) and willing to participate in treatment
- Adolescent residing primarily with the primary caregiver in a rural community (RUCA Codes 4-10)
- Both caregiver and adolescent must have (separate) Android or Apple (iOS) smartphone with mobile internet connection
- Adolescent and caregiver are English proficient
- Supporters must be 18 years of age or older
Age in the registry: 12 years to 17 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSC - Division of Global and Community Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Recruiting |
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