Can an app get teens with MS moving? new study aims to find out
NCT ID NCT04782466
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests a smartphone app designed to help teens and young adults with multiple sclerosis become more physically active. The app provides coaching, activity tracking, and educational modules. Researchers will measure changes in physical activity levels, fitness, and quality of life in 56 participants aged 11-21.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Smartphone app with physical activity coaching, self-monitoring, and educational modules
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a practical, app-based way to help teens with MS become more active, potentially improving their well-being and reducing disease activity.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 56 participants, so results may not apply to all youth with MS. The app may not lead to lasting changes in physical activity or disease outcomes.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 56 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2020
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2025
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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11 to 21 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Youth 11-21 years of age; 2. MS diagnosis or clinically isolated syndrome, as per revised McDonald diagnostic criteria and International Pediatric MS Study Group criteria prior to the age of 18; 3. Participating in less than three hours of structured physical activity per week. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Have non-specific white matter abnormalities and metabolic or infectious etiologies for white matter abnormalities; 2. Do not speak and read English at a level needed to complete the questionnaires (4th grade level); 3. Have significant motor disability, classified as an Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) ≥4; 4. Are at increased risk of cardiac or other complications of exercise testing (e.g. cardiac disease, diabetes), as determined by the pediatric neurologist or physician.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States
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The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, 35294, United States