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Group Telehealth Weight Management Visits for Adolescents With Obesity

NCT03508622 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2025-09-09

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Summary

Summary Description

The goal of this intervention study is to test how well does a weight management curriculum work in virtual group-based medical visits (telehealth) for the treatment of adolescents with obesity. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* How well does providing group-based medical care for obesity using telehealth work?
* How doable is it to provide virtual group-based health education visits with adolescent patients?
* Are the group-based health education visits similar, or better than the traditional in-person clinic visits?

Participants will be asked to:

* Complete surveys, do bloodwork, and physical measurements like blood pressure, height and weight before the study activities start and after completing the study activities
* Participate in study activities such as attending 12 virtual sessions lasting 60 minutes each, every other week, over a period of 6 months
* Join group learning and discussions of topics like nutrition, barriers to physical activity, and mental health with various facilitators like a medical doctor, dietitian, psychologist, and physical therapist
* Take part of in brief individual coaching sessions over email or over the phone Researchers will compare the virtual group-based medical visits to the traditional in-person weight management clinic visits (EMPOWER Weight Management Clinic) to see if the study can be another option in the treatment of adolescents with obesity.

Conditions

  • Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Empower clinic

Empower visits for the retrospective control group were multi-disciplinary in nature, occurred at CHLA outpatient clinic, and were intended to be monthly (though actual adherence to recommended attendance was variable). Teen and minimum of one family member were asked to attend monthly visits, as per our standard clinical care.

BEHAVIORAL

Telehealth group sessions

Telehealth sessions will utilize an online meeting platform and will be conducted by RDs, PTs, psychologists, and MDs, to deliver weight management information/counseling, to group of 5-6 14-18 yos with obesity.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Brenda Manzanarez · Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-01-01
Primary Completion
2021-04-09
Completion
2021-05-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

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