NCT07027865

Sip and Snack Better (SSB) Study: Improving Added Sugar in Adolescents

Targeting Added Sugar to Improve Dietary Intake in High-risk Adolescents

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Temple University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Teens consume more added sugar than any other age group. Too much added sugar is associated with poor diet quality, obesity risk, and negative cardiometabolic outcomes. Behavioral interventions to improve dietary intake are needed, but are currently lacking for this age group. This study aims to test how feasible, acceptable, and effective a 12-week contextually-tailored health coaching program, called Sip \& Snack Better (SSB), is in reducing added sugar in teens, compared to a technology-only comparison. It will provide important information on how to improve dietary intake and reduce added sugar in teens. Additionally, measuring diet is very challenging in teens, so this study will also test the use of an objective biomarker (called the carbon isotope ratio (CIR)) as a measure of added sugar intake before, during, and after the 12-week study.

Conditions

• Dietary Habits
• Diet, Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Sip & Snack Better (SSB) Intervention	Participants (teens 12-16 years) and their parent or legal guardian will participate in a 12-week health coaching intervention to reduce added sugar intake. Parents and teens will participate in 6 health coaching sessions (in weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 12; 30-45 minutes, online via Zoom). Teens will participate in four in-person groups sessions (in weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8) and receive text-messages to reinforce intervention content.
OTHER	Sip & Snack Better (SSB) Tech-Only Comparison	Participants (teens 12-16 years) and their parent or legal guardian will participate in a 12-week technology-only comparison arm. Parents and teens will receive information about added sugar intake and healthy eating once via email or text message (based on preference) in weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 12. Teens will receive informational text messages 3 times per week .

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-06-24
• Primary completion: 2026-05-30
• Completion: 2026-07-31
• First posted: 2025-06-19
• Last updated: 2026-04-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States