W8Loss2Go: mHealth Weight Management Strategy

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

The investigators will test a recent mobile technology based (mHealth) behavioral weight loss intervention (W8Loss2Go), which is designed for children and adolescents, and uses an addiction model to promote withdrawal from problem foods, snacking, and excessive amounts at meals. The investigators will test whether this intervention will reduce body mass index (BMI), help subjects identify and withdraw from "problem foods", eliminate snacking, and reduce the amounts of foods consumed at home meals.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02689154

Run by

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

People needed

18

Starts

2016-04-01

Expected to finish

2017-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-04-12

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 12-18 years
• Patients referred to EMPOWER
• Positive screen on the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children
• Participant will not be leaving the country during the study duration.

You may not qualify if…

• Obesity comorbidities including impaired glucose tolerance, impaired fasting glucose, diabetes, fatty liver with ALT>40, BP > 99th percentile for age, gender, and height
• Psychiatric illness including depression and anxiety disorder
• Known developmental delay

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital of Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.