Recruiting

E4W App

Sponsor:

The Hospital for Sick Children

Code:

NCT05548868

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 19

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

E4W mobile app

Standard Care

Study Details

Brief summary:

Recommendations for weight management in adolescents with obesity include setting small goals to improve eating behaviours. This frequently includes manually recording food intake over a few days. This is particularly challenging for adolescents as they do not enjoy writing down what they eat, leading to incomplete records. To address this, mobile applications (apps) can easily capture what is eaten through photos. Eating for wellness (E4W) is an app that analyzes photos of meals taken by the user and determines the nutritional profile. The investigators will conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial to determine whether E4W can be implemented successfully and its preliminary effectiveness and impact on dietary intake in adolescents with obesity participating in SickKids' weight management program.

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Study ID

NCT05548868

Start date

Aug 5, 2022

Status verified date

Sep, 2022

Completion date

Mar, 2023

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar, 2023

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 19

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Enrolled in pediatric weight management program
  • BMI > or equal to 97th percentile for age and sex
  • English-speaking
  • Own a smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Non-English speaking
  • Severe cognitive impairments that could preclude assessment
  • Undergone bariatric surgery
  • Diagnosed eating disorder

Study Design

Enrollment

32 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Experimental Arm

Patients will receive standard dietary counselling and use of E4W mobile app

active comparator: Control Arm

Patients will receive standard dietary counselling. No use of E4W.

Interventions

E4W mobile app

Eating for Wellness (E4W) is a mobile application that analyzes photos of meals taken by the user and determines the nutritional profile. Nutritional content is then directly transmitted to the dietitian.

Standard Care

Patients will receive standard dietary counselling as part of the weight management program.

Primary outcome measure

  • Feasibility of Implementation - Accrual Rate [ Time Frame: Week 4 ]
  • Feasibility of Implementation - Technical difficulties [ Time Frame: Week 4 ]
  • Feasibility of Implementation - Patient Satisfaction [ Time Frame: Week 4 ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Jill Hamilton, MD, MSc

416-813-7654jill.hamilton@sickkids.ca

Rebecca Noseworthy, RD, MPH

416-813-7654rebecca.noseworthy@sickkids.ca

Locations

SickKids

Recruiting

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G1X8

Contacts

Jill Hamilton, MD, MSc

416-813-7654jill.hamilton@sickkids.ca

More Information

Sponsor

The Hospital for Sick Children

Last update posted

Sep 22, 2022

Last verified

Sep, 2022

Keywords

  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Weight management
  • Dietary Assessment
  • Digital health applications
  • Adolescents
  • Mobile health

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Hospital for Sick Children on 2022-09-22.