Next Steps: a Community-led Solution to Address Childhood Obesity

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Obesity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Nutrition/physical activity intervention

• Registration Number: NCT01912859
• Lead Sponsor: University of Minnesota

Brief Summary

The purpose of Next Steps pilot intervention is to develop and test a new program designed to help low-income multiethnic families with overweight or obese children achieve long-term maintenance of healthful behaviors following completion of Hennepin County Medical Center's (HCMC) 16-week intensive obesity management course (Taking Steps Together (TST)).

Detailed Description

Next Steps is a community based pilot intervention study conducted in collaboration between community leaders, the University of Minnesota, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and The Family Partnership. The study collaborators will develop and test a new program designed to help low-income multiethnic families with overweight or obese children achieve long-term maintenance of healthful behaviors following completion of HCMC's 16-week intensive obesity management course (Taking Steps Together (TST)). Next Steps, the focus of this study, will comprise a network of parent-led, community-based health maintenance programs that will be offered to TST graduate families.

Project Aims:

Aim 1: Establish a core parent leadership group and health maintenance program network that is self-sustaining and can serve the community for years to come.

Aim 2: Test the feasibility, acceptability and sustainability of the Next Steps programs.

Aim 3: Assess the impact of the Next Steps programs on helping participant families sustain or improve healthful behaviors and achieve or maintain healthy body mass index (BMI).

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-07
• Study First Submitted: 2013-07-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-07-30
• Study First Posted: 2013-07-31
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Status Verified: 2019-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-10-30
• Last Update Posted: 2019-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 48

Inclusion Criteria

• Families that are graduates of the Taking Step Together program.
• Families with at least one overweight or obese child between the ages of 7-17.
• Family members of all ages who have graduated from the Taking Steps Together program will be included in the study.

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Exclusion Criteria

• Families who are not graduates of the Taking Steps Together program.
• Families who do not have one child that is between the ages of 7-17 and who is overweight or obese

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nutrition/physical activity intervention	Nutrition/physical activity intervention	The intervention, Next Steps, comprises a network of community-led health maintenance programs offered to graduates of an initial intensive obesity course. These health maintenance programs will aim to help participants maintain and improve healthful behaviors and body mass indices.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Maintain or lower body mass index	up to 4 months	Body mass index.
Frequency and intensity of physical activity	up to 4 months	Frequency and intensity of physical activity
Frequency of intake of healthful foods and reduction of unhealthful foods;	up to 4 months	Frequency of intake of healthful foods and reduction of unhealthful foods;