Digital health, technology-driven or technology-assisted interventions for the management of obesity in children and adolescents

Digital interventions plus conventional care may have a small, short-term beneficial effect on fat mass in children and adolescents compared to conventional care alone. The effect on other outcome measures is unclear. The long-term clinical benefit in children and adolescents is difficult to assess due to the limited number of studies with relatively small sample sizes included in this review. Future studies should: report their results by age, gender, and race/ethnicity; report full data to better enable data extraction and analysis; assess other important outcomes, particularly adverse events; control for both diet and physical activity in their analyses; and report the behavioral theory informing their intervention.