Skills Training Within a Family-based Obesity Treatment Intervention

Not Applicable

Terminated

• Conditions: Obesity, Childhood
• Interventions: Behavioral: child health education; Behavioral: skills training

• Registration Number: NCT03271801
• Lead Sponsor: University of Delaware

Brief Summary

This study is investigating the impact of a skills training program in stimulus control of meals and snacks on zBMI. Participants will be randomized to a standard family-based obesity treatment intervention with education on child health or a standard family-based obesity treatment intervention with experiential learning about meal stimulus control strategies.

Detailed Description

Family-based obesity treatment interventions can successfully reduce weight in children, but are often limited in the practice of skills being taught during treatment sessions.

Skills training focused on a particular behavioral strategy can provide parents with an experiential component of learning where the information learned as part of a family-based obesity treatment intervention is also practiced. Health education simply provides knowledge to a family about a topic.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-06-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-03-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-09-01
• Study First Posted: 2017-09-05
• Primary Completion: 2019-02-28
• Study Completion: 2019-02-28
• Status Verified: 2019-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-03-22
• Last Update Posted: 2019-03-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: TERMINATED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2

Inclusion Criteria

• caregiver of child is ≥18 years of age;
• the caregiver has a child between the ages of 4 and 8 years-old who is classified as overweight (body mass index for age ≥ 85th percentile);
• the caregiver and child are able to read, speak and understand English due to delivery of the program in English;
• has transportation to the University of Delaware; and
• is willing and able to commit to the 3-month study.

Exclusion Criteria

• the child has a medical condition impacting physical activity or eating (e.g. Type

  1 or Type 2 diabetes);

• the child have a medical condition that affects growth (e.g. Prader Willi Syndrome);

• the child is currently participating in a weight management program, and/or taking weight loss medication; or

• the caregiver or child has an inability to participate in regular physical activity.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Child Health Education	child health education	The child health education condition will participate in a family-based obesity treatment program for the first 40 minutes of each session, followed by 20 minutes designated to education about a child health topic. Parents and children will be asked to self-monitor sugar-sweetened beverages, fruits, vegetables, and minutes of physical activity and screen time.
Skills Training	skills training	The skills training condition will participate in a family-based obesity treatment program for the first 40 minutes of each session followed by 20 minutes of experiential learning about meal stimulus control strategies. Parents and children will be asked to self-monitor sugar-sweetened beverages, fruits, vegetables, and minutes of physical activity and screen time. In addition they will self-monitor the use the following stimulus control strategies: portion control, energy density and variety.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
z-BMI	3-months	Height and weight will be used to calculate BMI (kg/m2) and BMI will be standardized in relation to the population mean and standard deviation for the child's age to sex to determine zBMI.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Energy intake	3-months	Based upon a 3-day dietary record analyzed using NDS-R, energy intake will be averaged across the three days.
Food groups servings	3-months	Based upon a 3-day dietary record analyzed using NDS-R, the number of servings consumed from each food group will be averaged over three days.
Percent Energy from Fat	3-months	Based upon a 3-day dietary record analyzed using NDS-R, the calories from fat will be divided by total energy intake (calories) to get percentage energy from fat.
Physical Activity	3-months	Minutes spent engaging in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity will be measured using the PD-PAR.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Delaware; 🇺🇸 Newark, Delaware, United States