NCT02262013

Evaluation of a Family-based Pediatric Obesity Program: TEENS+

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Investigators propose to pilot an adolescent obesity intervention, TEENS+, to examine the feasibility of this dietary intervention strategy and preliminary effectiveness of two models of parental involvement within adolescent obesity treatment.

Detailed description

Investigators will recruit overweight or obese adolescents (BMI \>85th percentile) and parent(s) (BMI \>25 kg/m2). Families will participate in one of two 6-month treatments: 1) TEENS+Parents as Coaches (PAC), engaging parents as helpers in their child's weight management, or 2) TEENS+Parent Weight Loss (PWL), engaging parents in their own weight management. All adolescents will participate in TEENS+, which includes behavioral support, nutrition education, and supervised physical activity. For the adolescents, intervention will consist of weekly 1 hour exercise sessions and alternating weekly 1 hour behavioral and nutrition group sessions. Parents will also attend the nutrition sessions and participate in a behavioral parent-only biweekly group. Parent behavioral group sessions will be specific to the treatment arm (e.g. PAC or PWL). Assessments will consist of anthropometric measures, lab work, psychological surveys, and nutritional evaluations. Assessments will be completed at baseline, 3 months, 6 months (post-intervention), and 9 months.

Conditions

• Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parents as Coaches	Adolescents will receive lifestyle intervention (TEENS) and parents will receive parents as coaches (PAC) intervention.
BEHAVIORAL	Parent Weight Loss	Adolescents will receive lifestyle intervention (TEENS) and parents will receive parent weight loss (PWL) intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2014-10-10
• Last updated: 2017-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States