Guided Self-help Treatment for Families With an Overweight Child
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 50
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Child BMI
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a home based program can teach parents and moderately overweight kids who are of 8-12 years old with a BMI% between 85-97%, how to manage their child's weight. The study uses manuals and involves a short visit to the clinic every other week.
详细描述
An estimated 4-5 million children between the ages of 6-17 in the United States are obese. Children who are obese are at an increased risk for many negative health consequences in childhood and in adulthood. In addition, these children are at an increased risk for psychosocial consequences in childhood and adolescence, including poor self-esteem, teasing, verbal abuse and social isolation. Guided self-help offers an opportunity to provide empirically based programs to a larger amount of the target population. Once such treatment methods are available, it is possible that the guided self-help treatment for childhood obesity can be disseminated to primary care practitioners, psychologists, nurses, and health educators. Ultimately, the goal of this application is to develop a treatment protocol that can be used by clinics and lay health professionals to intervene with children who are overweight and their parents.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 8 Years 至 12 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •child between the ages of 8 & 12
- •an moderately overweight child with a BMI% between 85-97%
- •child has a parent willing to participate
- •child has a parent who can read English at a minimum of a 6th grade level
- •family who is willing to commit to treatment attendance and attendance at all assessments.
排除标准
- •Child psychiatric disorder diagnoses (based on parent report)
- •Child diagnoses of a serious current physical disease (such as diabetes)
- •Child who is taking medications that may impact their weight
- •Child with physical difficulties that limit the ability to exercise
- •Child with an active eating disorder
- •Child and parent will be moving out of the San Diego County before study completion
- •Child and/or parent has a modified diet due to religious or socially conscious reasons (such as Vegan, vegetarian)
研究组 & 干预措施
Immediate treatment group
The immediate treatment group begins the 5-month treatment immediately after baseline assessment.
干预措施: Immediate Treatment Group (Other)
Delayed Treatment Group
The delayed treatment group serves as the control group. This group starts treatment 5 months after the baseline assessment. No intervention is involved during this 5-month waiting period. After 5 months, the delayed group is assessed for the second time and then begins the 5-month treatment.
干预措施: Delayed Treatment Group (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Child BMI
时间窗: 5 months
次要结局
- Parent BMI(5 months)
研究者
Kerri Boutelle
Professor
University of California, San Diego