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Testing a web health app with an AI assistant for chronic conditions

Tests whether an AI-assisted health app is useful and easy to use.

Key facts

Who runs it
Fondation Net-Care.ch
Where
Geneva, SwitzerlandSee the site
Trial code
Registry title
Use and Acceptability of an AI-Assisted Health Application for Individuals Living With a Chronic Condition
Status
Not yet recruiting
People taking part
1,600 people, planned
Started
Nov 2026
Expected to end
Dec 2027
Type of study
Interventional
Treatments tested
  • SOFIA application
Record updated
6 November 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 adults with high blood pressure who live or work in the canton of Geneva. They use a web-based health app on their own, fully online.

Age
18 years or older
Sex
All sexes
Disease stage
Self-reported diagnosis of hypertension (high blood pressure)

Main reasons for not taking part

  • Taking part in another interventional clinical trial
  • Cannot give digital informed consent
  • Took part in the SOFIA beta testing program

The registry criteria, word for word

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Who can take part

  • Aged 18 years or older
  • Resident or worker in the canton of Geneva
  • Access to a device with a web browser and internet connection (smartphone, tablet, or computer)
  • Ability to read and understand French sufficiently to use the application and complete study questionnaires
  • Willing and able to comply with the study procedures
  • Digital informed consent (e-consent) provided
  • Self-reported diagnosis of hypertension

Who cannot take part

  • Current participation in another interventional clinical trial
  • Inability to provide digital informed consent
  • Participation in the SOFIA beta testing program

Where in Switzerland

  • Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), Division of Primary Care MedicineGeneva, SwitzerlandNot yet recruiting

About the trial

What the trial wants to find out

The SOFIA study evaluates a web-based health application for people living with one or more chronic conditions. The study aims to find out whether the SOFIA application is useful, easy to use, and used over time by participants.

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The SOFIA application offers tools to support the day-to-day management of health: lifestyle challenges, health data entry and personal tracking (e.g., blood pressure, weight), medication tracking for people using pochettes-doses (pharmacy-prepared unit-dose packets), and an AI conversational assistant providing general health information. The application does not make diagnoses, give personalized medical advice, or recommend treatment. It complements usual medical care but does not replace it.

The study first enrolls people with hypertension, then, subject to ethics committee approval, people with type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Participation takes place entirely online, through the SOFIA application, accessible from a web browser (smartphone, tablet, or computer). There are no in-person visits. Participants use the application freely, at their own pace, until the end of the study. Short questionnaires (most take 1 to 3 minutes) are offered in the application during the study, and a final questionnaire (about 20 minutes) at the end.

The group in the trial

  • SOFIA applicationTreatment being tested

    Participants with a self-reported diagnosis of hypertension using the SOFIA application.

Questions to ask the study team

  1. How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
  2. Are travel costs paid?
  3. Can I keep my own doctor?
  4. What happens if I want to stop?

Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations

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Data and sources

Registry record
Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
Official title
SOFIA: Evaluation of the Use and Acceptability of an AI-Assisted Health Application for Individuals Living With a Chronic Condition
Plain-language title
Testing a web health app with an AI assistant for chronic conditionsGenerated 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.
Record updated
6 November 2026