Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families: Virtual Family Intervention for Adolescent Obesity

Conditions

• Obese Children and Adolescents

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

12 Years - 17 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families — BEHAVIORAL
  Participants in this arm will receive a digital adaptation of FIT families, an evidenced based treatment for adolescent obesity. The social support condition will add one additional participant to the treatment group (i.e., caregiver, youth, community health worker, and social support person). The social support person's role is to review the daily engagement reports and completion of weekly goals and provide encouragement via peer-to-peer messaging in the DWN app. The social support person does not communicate with the CHW or participate in any treatment sessions. This person is selected by the family at the beginning of the study and provides reinforcement to the family through encouraging messages.

Study Details

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).

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 20, 2025

Status verified

Jul 2025

Primary completion

Nov 14, 2025

Completion

Dec 31, 2025

Study Design

Enrollment

32 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Arms

• Experimental: Social Support
  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.
• Active Comparator: Control
  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.

Primary Outcome Measure

Engagement [ Time Frame: The PHE survey will be taken via the DWN app at each time point, T0-T3 (wks 0,6, and 12) ]

Central Contacts

• Jennifer Smith Powell, BA
  843-876-1840
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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