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A Multicenter Study for Evaluating a Digital Support System in Childhood Obesity Treatment
Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet
Summary
Evira is a digital support system newly developed for treatment of childhood obesity. Through daily weighings at home using a special scale together with a message function in the Evira application, enabling fast and easy communication with the clinic, parents and the clinicians can easily follow the child's weight development. The purpose of this randomized controlled study is to evaluate the effect of adding Evira to the already locally used life-style treatment of childhood obesity.
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Multicenter Study for Evaluating a Digital Support System in Childhood Obesity Treatment (EurEvira)
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
4 Years - 17 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
680
Start Date
2022-05-24
Completion Date
2027-12
Last Updated
2025-10-06
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Evira Care treatment
The intervention aim to examine the effectiveness of using a digital support system (Evira) in treatment of childhood obesity. Through daily weighings at home using a special designed scale, which sends data directly to an application on the parents phone and to a clinic homepage, the child's weight development can be easily monitored. Participants can be randomized to either the intervention group or the control group. The control group will receive local standard treatment.
Standard Lifestyle Care
The control group will receive the local standard care of treatment addressing lifestyles for childhood obesity without any restriction in visits or clinical support. This is the current standard care of treatment for childhood obesity.
Locations (5)
University of Messina
Messina, Italy
University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
Naples, Italy
St. Olavs Hospital
Trondheim, Norway
Samodzielny Publiczny Szpital Kliniczny
Szczecin, Poland
Kalmar barnklinik
Kalmar, Sweden