Healthy Kids & Families: Overcoming Social, Environmental and Family Barriers to Childhood Obesity Prevention
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 244
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- child BMI z-score
研究概览
简要总结
The study will test the impact of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families overcome barriers to childhood obesity prevention. Barriers include social, environmental, and family issues.
This intervention will be compared to a control condition consisting of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families improve positive parenting skills.
详细描述
The study will test the impact of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families overcome barriers to childhood obesity prevention. Barriers include social, environmental, and family issues.
This intervention will be compared to a control condition consisting of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families improve positive parenting skills.
The intervention uses multiple delivery modalities to maintain novelty and prevent attrition/burden. These include home visits, telephone contacts, print (literacy sensitive newsletters), social media (Facebook), and community events. Parents and children will complete scheduled assessments at baseline, 6-, 12-, 18- and 24-month follow-up.
The Specific Aims are:
Aim 1: To determine the effectiveness of the intervention compared to the control condition on child physical activity, healthy eating, BMI and utilization of built environment resources.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 4 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Eligible individuals for the research study are parents/guardians and their K-6th grade children attending one of 9 schools in the greater Worcester area. Parents and their children are recruited as parent-child dyads.
排除标准
- •Has an inability or unwillingness to give informed consent or assent
- •Is a prisoner
- •Exclusion (child only)
- •The child has been told by a doctor that they cannot walk or eat fruits and vegetables.
研究组 & 干预措施
Healthy Lifestyles
The study will test the impact of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families overcome barriers to childhood obesity prevention. Barriers include social, environmental, and family issues.
干预措施: Healthy Lifestyle (Behavioral)
Positive Parenting
The control condition consists of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families improve positive parenting skills.
干预措施: Positive Parenting (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
child BMI z-score
时间窗: 2 years
Weight and height is measured using standard methodology, with children wearing light clothing and no shoes. Weight is measured to the nearest 0.5 lb on a digital scale. Height is measured to the nearest tenth of a centimeter using a stadiometer. BMI is calculated: weight (kg)/height squared (meters) for age and gender using United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BMI charts growth charts.
次要结局
- Child Dietary Behaviors: Overall(2 years)
- Child Physical Activity and Sedentariness: ActiGraph GT1M(2 years)
- Parent Dietary Behaviors for Beverages(2 years)
- Child Dietary Behaviors for Beverages(2 years)
- Parent Dietary Behaviors: Overall(2 years)
- Child Physical Activity and Sedentariness: C-PAQ and PAQ-C(2 years)
- Parent physical activity and sedentariness: C-PAQ and PAQ-C(2 years)
- Child Dietary Behaviors for snacks(2 years)
- Parent Dietary Behaviors for Snacks(2 years)
- Child Physical Activity and Sedentariness: Massachusetts Parent Child Longitudinal Cohort Survey(2 years)
- Parent physical activity and sedentariness: Massachusetts Parent Child Longitudinal Cohort Survey(2 years)
- Parent physical activity and sedentariness: ActiGraph GT1M(2 years)
- Parent BMI(2 years)
- Child utilization of built environment resources(2 years)
研究者
Milagros Rosal
Professor
University of Massachusetts, Worcester