Tests a digital app that helps families with teen obesity
Tests an app that helps families build healthy habits with teens who have obesity.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Machine and Human Interaction
- Where
- Charleston, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families: Virtual Family Intervention for Adolescent Obesity
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 32 people, planned
- Started
- 20 Jun 2025
- Planned end
- 31 Dec 2025
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families
- Record updated
- 28 July 2025
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 teenagers aged 12-17 with a high BMI who live in a rural community, together with a caregiver who is overweight or obese. They test an app that delivers a family weight programme.
- Age
- Teenagers 12-17 years old. Supporters must be 18 years or older.
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Teen BMI at or above the 90th percentile for age and gender. Caregiver BMI 25.0 to 29.9 (overweight) or 30 and above (obese). Teen lives mostly with the caregiver in a rural community (RUCA Codes 4-10).
- Earlier treatment
- Cannot be getting, or planning to get, other obesity treatment (such as medicine or weight-loss surgery) within the next 6 months.
Main reasons for not taking part
- Obesity caused by a medicine or by a long-term condition (for example Down syndrome, Prader-Willi syndrome, Cushing's syndrome) - teens only
- Pregnancy
- Serious mental or emotional disorder, or being suicidal or homicidal
- Serious problems with thinking that prevent filling in questionnaires
- Medical condition where weight loss is not advised
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- 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
Who cannot take part
- Receiving or planned to receive other obesity treatments (e.g., pharmacologic treatment, bariatric surgery) within the next 6 months
- 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
- Pregnancy (e.g., caregivers and youth will be asked each week if they expect if they are pregnant)
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 17 years old?
Where in United States
- MUSC - Division of Global and Community HealthCharleston, United StatesContact: Jennifer Smith Powell, BATaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
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).
The 2 groups in the trial
- Social SupportTreatment being tested
Participants in the social support arm will receive the same treatment as the control group, including video chatting with health coach, physical activity monitoring, and compensation via contingency management. In addition to these elements, these participants will also assign a social support person to provide them encouragement and accountability.
Treatment: Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families
- ControlExisting treatment, for comparison
The Control arm features the standard digital FIT Families treatment, including video chat with health coach, physical activity, nutrition monitoring, and compensation through contigency management.
Treatment: Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families
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
- Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families: Virtual Family Intervention for Adolescent Obesity
- Plain-language title
- Tests a digital app that helps families with teen obesityGenerated 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 NCT07087808, who can take part
- Record updated
- 28 July 2025