Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families for Adolescent Obesity
This study is testing a digital app called "Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families" to see if it helps deliver an existing program for adolescent obesity. The program, called FIT Families, is designed to help African American adolescents (ages 12-17) who are obese. The app aims to make it easier for these teens and their caregivers to track progress, learn about healthy habits, and get support from family or friends. We want to see if the app is easy to use and if people stay engaged with it. You might be able to join if you are an African American adolescent aged 12-17 with obesity, live in a rural area, and have a primary caregiver who is overweight or obese and willing to participate. This study is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- Study design
- This study is an interventional study with 32 participants. It is testing a behavioral intervention delivered through a digital app.
- What's involved
- You will use the Digital Wellness Nurse app, and your progress will be monitored weekly via video conference with a community health worker. Engagement will be measured at weeks 0, 6, and 12, and usability will be measured at week 6.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Engagement will be measured up to 12 weeks after starting the intervention.
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Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families: Virtual Family Intervention for Adolescent Obesity
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Jerome McClendon, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Machine and Human Interaction LLC
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- EngagementThe PHE survey will be taken via the DWN app at each time point, T0-T3 (wks 0,6, and 12)
We will measure engagement through the delivery of the 9-item Patient Health Engagement (PHE, Graffigna, et al., 2015) survey. The PHE is used to determine the degree to which patients are engaged in their own health and describes the patient's ability to manage their own health. PHE has been validated in other work, but a sample size large enough to meet this threshold is outside the scope of this study. The PHE outcomes gathered here will be used as preliminary data for future studies.
- UsabilityThe SUS will be delivered in week 6 of the intervention.
We will deliver a usability assessment via the System Usability Scale (SUS, Brooke, 1996) assessment focusing on the efficiency and effectiveness of accessing, delivering, and providing support during the intervention. The SUS includes topics such as readability, technology literacy, and interface design. These elements are combined into a semi-quantitative score for system usability.