NCT07501546Completed
Enhancing Childhood Obesity Interventions Through Digital Media Tools
An Experimental Study on Enhancing Childhood Obesity Interventions Through Digital Media Tools: A Case Study of Taipei City Hospital
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a LINE Official Account (a mobile messaging platform) as a digital health education tool to enhance parental engagement with childhood obesity-related health literacy content. Parents of school-aged children (grades 1, 4, and 7) identified as obese through school health screenings in Taipei, Taiwan, who declined face-to-face clinic participation, were invited to join the LINE Official Account platform. Participants were allocated to either an immediate push notification group (receiving automated educational messages for 24 weeks from enrollment) or a delayed push notification group (receiving no push notifications for the first 12 weeks, followed by 12 weeks of push notifications). The study compared parental engagement behaviors between the two groups, including the proportion of users clicking interactive educational content and the click frequency per user, to determine whether the timing of push notification initiation affects parental engagement with digital health education content related to childhood obesity.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 567 (actual)
- First submitted
- 24 Mar 2026
- Start date
- 3 Feb 2024
- Primary completion date
- 19 Jul 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Taipei City Hospital
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT07501546
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 567
- From 3 Feb 2024 to the primary completion date, 19 Jul 2024
- 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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Other
- Parents who accepted the face-to-face Healthy Weight Clinic invitation during initial telephone contact
- Parents whose child participated in another research study within the preceding month
- Parents unable to access the LINE messaging application
Who the study is looking for
- Parents or legal guardians of primary school (grades 1 and 4) or junior high school (grade 7) students in Zhongzheng and Wanhua districts, Taipei City
- Their child was identified as obese (BMI above the age- and sex-specific 95th percentile based on Taiwan national standards) through school health screenings conducted by Taipei City Hospital
- Parents provided consent for the public health program to calculate their child's BMI classification and to be contacted
- Parents declined the invitation to participate in the face-to-face Healthy Weight Clinic program during telephone contact
- Parents were able to use the LINE messaging application on a smartphone
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taipei City Hospital, Heping Fuyou Branch, Department of Pediatrics Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Taipei | Taiwan | Unknown status |
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