NCT01188616

IT-Supported Early Treatment Of Childhood Overweight

Automated Self-management System to Promote Healthy Eating and Activity in Overweight Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: Boston Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 9 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this exploratory/ developmental study is to develop and evaluate an integrated information system, Healthy Eating and Activity Today (HEAT), for promoting self-care in overweight children. HEAT is comprised of two components: 1)Telephone Linked Care-HEAT (TLC-HEAT), a self-care intervention delivered at home through totally automated telephone conversations; and 2) Primary Care-HEAT (PC-HEAT), a primary care intervention linked with TLC-HEAT and delivered through an electronic health record (EHR). The HEAT system will guide children in the early stages of overweight, i.e., children with Body Mass Index (BMI) 0-3 BMI points above the 95th percentile for age and gender, toward healthy weight management and assist the child's parent(s) and primary care provider (PCP) to support the child's efforts.

Detailed description

For this project we will: 1) develop TLC-HEAT for use by children in the earliest stage of overweight and their parents; 2) integrate TLC-HEAT with an electronic health record to provide child- and parent-reported behavior summaries combined with evidence-based decision support to primary care providers (PCPs) at the point-of-care (PC-HEAT); and 3) conduct a pilot study of the combined HEAT system to explore the appropriateness of conducting a larger, randomized clinical trial in the future.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity
• Technology Based Obesity Intervention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Telephone Linked Care-HEAT (TLC-HEAT)	A primary care intervention linked with Telephone Linked Care-HEAT (TLC-HEAT), and delivered through an electronic health record (EHR). The HEAT system will guide children in the early stages of overweight toward healthy weight management and assist the child's parent(s) and primary care provider (PCP) to support the child's efforts.

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-07-01
• Primary completion: 2010-05-01
• First posted: 2010-08-25
• Last updated: 2010-08-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States