Evaluation of Exercise Application Technology and Continuous Glucose Monitoring to Improve Weight Loss and Metabolic Markers in Adolescents

Patients will be recruited directly from the Childrens of Alabama pediatric endocrine clinic. Thirty patients who have obesity, prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes will be enrolled. During the enrollment phase, flyers will be posted in clinic and emails will be distributed to potential participants. Our study team will approach interested participants during their routine clinic visit. Consent will be obtained by study team during their endocrine clinic visit. Review of their medical records will be done and age, gender and race will be extracted from the medical record. A baseline visit with vital signs, blood work, a physical exam and nutritional counseling will be completed. Once enrolled, the patients will then be randomized.Within this pilot trial, we will randomize 15 adolescents/teenagers who either have obesity, prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes, to access to an exercise regimen and 15 adolescents to control intervention using a permuted block randomization scheme. The randomization scheme will contain 6 blocks of size 5 allowing for 30 randomized in the group with obesity, prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.

Those who are in the intervention group will then be given access to frequent telephone counseling to follow-up their nutrition and exercise goals, access to exercise application and accelerometer as described below. Follow-up will then be completed at 3 and 6 months with a physical exam, vital signs, blood draw.

Intervention Group

Access provided to exercise application Provided with Fitbit to wear and measure activity Weekly check-in with provider to determine how exercise goals have been that week. If unable to reach, we will text securely a clinic check-in and provide a healthy tip of the week.

Meeting with nutrition at Baseline visit