NCT06023667

SMART-IBD App Trial

Self-Management Assistance for Recommended Treatement (SMART) App Randomized Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this trial is to test whether a smartphone app, SMART-IBD, is effective in improving medication adherence and self-management skills in adolescents with IBD. The investigators will conduct a randomized control trial to compare a sample of 20 youth (ages 13-17) with IBD using an app that has educational content and medication reminders to 20 youth in an attention control group. The length of the intervention will include one month of baseline adherence data collection, one month of intervention, and one month of post-treatment adherence data collection.

Conditions

• Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
• IBD
• Crohn Disease
• Ulcerative Colitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SMART-IBD	Daily medication and diary completion reminders are provided to participants. Additional educational content regarding self-management skills will be provided.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-14
• Primary completion: 2023-12-28
• Completion: 2023-12-28
• First posted: 2023-09-05
• Last updated: 2025-08-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States