Family-based Outcome Results
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Registration Number
- NCT04132245
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Brief Summary
Many obesity related risk factors are strikingly apparent in minority populations. Mexican-American children have the highest rates of overweight. The goals of this study are to: 1) test the acceptability of a 14-week family-based intervention with 3-5 year old children and their parents; 2) Estimate the effectiveness of a 14-week family-based intervention designed to show smaller changes, on average, in BMI appropriate for growth; 3) estimate the effectiveness of a 14-week family-based intervention designed to produce changes in television viewing, physical activity, fat, fiber, and fruit and vegetable intake in 3-5 year old Latino children and their parents at post-intervention and Year 1 follow-up.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 140
- have received an annual physical
- parent or guardian willing to give consent
- parent or guardian willing to provide demographic and anthropometric data and agree to complete food intake and physical activity information for their child
- requires a specialized diet outside of that served by the Chicago Public Schools
- has a chronic physical or behavioral disorder that requyires participant to be under close emdical psychologicagl supervision and routinely absent from the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Body mass index 1 year we measured the change in BMI of the children at baseline and post-intervention
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method