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Testing Digital Technologies to Help Families Build Healthy Habits

NCT04845568 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2024-09-19

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Summary

The current study is a randomized pilot trial to test the feasibility of a psychoeducational virtual reality experience to increase motivation for behavior change among children with overweight or obesity.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Virtual Reality Experience

The virtual reality experience includes psychoeducation content about healthy eating and consideration of future consequences. It includes a game where participants are in a go kart and pick up healthy or unhealthy foods on the road. Participants play in the "present" and in the "future."

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ellen E Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD · Washington University Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-04-17
Primary Completion
2022-05-07
Completion
2022-05-07

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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