Location Initiated Individualized Texts for Adolescent Health (LIITAH)

Healthy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Location Initiated Individualized Texts for Adolescent Health (LIITAH)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03762135
• Other study ID #: HUM0000143430
• Secondary ID: 2R42MD008840-02
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 4, 2021
• Est. completion date: November 21, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: University of Michigan
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this study is to test whether the mobile application (app.) helps adolescents make healthy food choices, decreasing calories purchased from restaurants, fewer number of visits to restaurants, and if it has an impact on their body mass index (BMI). Eligible adolescents will be enrolled in the study along with a parent for approximately 6 months.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 79
• Est. completion date: November 21, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: November 21, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 13 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• eat restaurant food at least 3 times a week and have a parent who agrees to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy
• Obese
• Overweight

Intervention

Other:
• Full version of the LIITah App.
Participants will download the LIITAH app. For the first 2 weeks the app. will only record presence in a restaurant and ask users to submit photos of their food. in week 3 all of the program features will be activated.
• Partial App. (ELI and SNAP only)
Participants will download the LIITAH app. It will detect their presence in a restaurant and users will submit annotated photos of their purchases

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Michigan	National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Visits to restaurants	number of visits will be obtained from the app.	over 6 months
Primary	Calories purchased from restaurants	number of calories purchased by the adolescent and for the adolescent will be assessed using annotated photos, and nutritional data from the restaurant menus.	over 6 months
Secondary	Change in body mass index (BMI)	height and weight will be obtained	baseline, 6 months