Trial of ?Families for Health?: helping families with children who are overweight to manage their weight

Completed

• Conditions: Childhood overweight and obesity; Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine; Obesity

• Registration Number: ISRCTN45032201
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Warwick (UK)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-08-18
• Last Update Posted: 6 February 2017

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

1. Families with at least one overweight (>91st centile for BMI) or obese (?very overweight?) (>98th centile for BMI) child aged 7-11 years
2. At least one parent/guardian and child willing to take part

Exclusion Criteria

1. Parent or child with insufficient command of English, who would find it difficult to participate in the group
2. Metabolic or other recognised medical cause of obesity
3. Children with severe learning difficulties and/or behavioural problems

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Change in children?'s BMI z-score at 12 months follow-up (change from baseline) (BMI (kg/m2) will be measured at baseline, 3 months and 12 months follow-up, and converted into standard deviation scores (z) from 1990 UK growth reference curves [Cole 1995])