Evaluation of a Digital Childhood Obesity Treatment

NCT ID: NCT04323215

Last Updated: 2020-11-23

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

156 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-09-01

Study Completion Date

2020-05-01

Brief Summary

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This study aims to evaluate if a web-based digital support system aiming to replacing or complement standardized pediatric behavioural obesity treatment. The hypothesis is that a digital system of communication between the family and the clinic can generate improved treatment results (change in BMI SDS) and reduce the number of missed visits.

Detailed Description

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Childhood obesity treatment is time consuming for both the health care system, and for the involved families. There is an association between the intensity and the outcome of treatment.

In this study all children who start treatment for childhood obesity will use a digital support system as a complement to behavioral treatment. The digital support system includes daily weighing on scales that do not show any digits, linked to a mobile app where weight development is shown as a moving average in the form of BMI standard deviation score (SDS). The app also provides an individual target curve visualizing the expected weight journey. Weight in growing children is complex to interpret why BMI SDS is used. Objective data from scale are automatically transferred to the database and the clinic and the family have direct contact with the clinic via the app.

The evaluation will be carried out when approximately 120 children have had the opportunity to be treated with the support system for one year. The results will be compared with a matched control group from the BORIS childhood obesity treatment register.

Conditions

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Childhood Obesity Treatment Adherence

Keywords

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Mobile Health Support System Behavioral treatment Self-Monitoring

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Support system users

Usual care (behavioral treatment) plus the support system for self-monitoring of weight and communication with the clinic during one year of treatment.

Support system

Intervention Type DEVICE

A support system named Provement will be used to provide behavioral treatment.

Control group

Children treated with usual care according to regular treatment routines registred in BORIS the Swedish childhood obesity treatment register

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Support system

A support system named Provement will be used to provide behavioral treatment.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Obesity according to International Obesity Task Force (IOTF)

Exclusion Criteria

* No
Minimum Eligible Age

3 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Karolinska Institutet

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Pernilla Danielsson

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Pernilla Danielsson, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Karolinska Institutet, CLINTEC, Division of pediatrics

Locations

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Childrens hospital Martina

Stockholm, , Sweden

Site Status

Countries

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Sweden

References

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Hagman E, Johansson L, Kollin C, Marcus E, Drangel A, Marcus L, Marcus C, Danielsson P. Effect of an interactive mobile health support system and daily weight measurements for pediatric obesity treatment, a 1-year pragmatical clinical trial. Int J Obes (Lond). 2022 Aug;46(8):1527-1533. doi: 10.1038/s41366-022-01146-8. Epub 2022 May 31.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35641569 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Provement100

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id