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NCT04917601
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A Multicenter Study for Evaluating a Digital Support System in Childhood Obesity Treatment

Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet

View on ClinicalTrials.gov

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

BEHAVIORAL

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.

BEHAVIORAL

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