Adapting and Assessing the Feasibility of a Telehealth Diabetes Prevention Program for Hispanic Adolescents

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Hispanic adolescents are disproportionately burdened by type 2 diabetes (T2D). Social determinants of health (SDoH) serve as barriers to behavior change and participation in disease prevention efforts, especially among vulnerable adolescents. Telehealth is a potentially effective approach for delivering disease prevention programs as it addresses some SDoH like transportation, childcare needs, and parent work schedules. Unfortunately, there are no theory- or evidence-based telehealth diabetes prevention program for Hispanic adolescents. Therefore the purpose of this study is to adapt an evidence-based diabetes prevention program for delivery via telehealth and to test the feasibility of this study among Hispanic adolescents (12-16 years) with obesity.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 14
Maximum Age: 16
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• Self-report as Hispanic

• obese, defined as body mass index percentile (BMI%) ≥ 95th percentile

• ages of 12-16 years

• owns his or her own cellphone

Locations
United States
Texas
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine
RECRUITING
Houston
Contact Information
Primary
Erica Soltero, PhD
soltero@bcm.edu
402-910-0832
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-04-12
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-08-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 40
Treatments
Experimental: Intervention
Nutrition Education: There are 12 pre-recorded nutrition and well-being sessions in Spanish and English lasting 20-40 minutes and hosted on an elearning platform, Learnworlds. This is a secure platform and each participant and their family members will have a secure, unique, password protected login. The platform includes a discussion board to share challenges and successes in behavior change, a recipes tab, and message system to ask instructors questions or report technical issues. Participants will receive a Fitbit Charge and access to a chatbot developed by Mobile Coach to assist youth in setting behavioral goals and planning opportunities to be active or to improve sleep behaviors. Mid-week texts will emphasize competence by acknowledging progression towards goals, providing evidence-based strategies for increasing PA, and reinforcing content from nutrition sessions. End of week texts will provide feedback on goal attainment.
No_intervention: Control
Youth in the control will receive a handout on diet and PA guidelines . Control youth will be given access to the nutrition education website after their participation as a control for 12-weeks. No additional data will be collected on control youth beyond the 12 week intervention period.
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Sponsors
Leads: Baylor College of Medicine

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov