NCT02703688

Environmental Influences on Early Childhood Obesity

Environmental Influences on Early Childhood Obesity: The Healthy Homes Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 129 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Few treatments have been developed for young children with obesity from diverse backgrounds. The present study will develop and test an intervention designed to improve preschool obesity in Latino children. The intervention will focus on improving eating, activity, and sleep behaviors and the home environment for improved weight status.

Detailed description

Children from low income families of minority status are at greater risk for development of obesity. There are no known existing treatments for pediatric obesity that focus on improving parental behaviors and the home food and activity environment. The objective of this study will be to address this limitation by developing and testing a novel treatment for low-income minority families. The objective will be attained by testing the following hypothesis: A parent-focused, home-based treatment aimed at improving parental feeding behaviors, child exposure to fruits and vegetables, and the home food and activity environment will result in significantly greater decrease in percent overweight / obesity compared to recommended practice. The hypothesis will be tested by using the approach of a pilot randomized control trial (RCT). The rationale for this aim is that success of the planned research will derive a treatment package that will provide the basis for the RCT. The planned research is expected to show the level of impact of changing parental feeding behaviors and the home environment on childhood overweight / obesity.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Homes	The Healthy Homes Behavioral Intervention (HHBI) will be delivered during 8 sessions over 10 weeks using home visitations. The first 6 sessions occur weekly and provide education about healthy dietary intake including caloric recommendations for preschool aged children, healthy sleep goals, active play and screen time limits, and family routines and organization. Each session will include a parent-child interaction component to teach child behavior management skills related to intervention goals. Two final sessions occur every other week to provide problem solving and planning for maintenance of treatment effects.
OTHER	Usual Care	A pediatrician with experience delivering weight management treatment to children will deliver a single session, 1-hour treatment to families. Content to be delivered during the session will include lifestyle recommendations currently recommended by the AAP.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-15
• Primary completion: 2014-03-31
• Completion: 2014-03-31
• First posted: 2016-03-09
• Last updated: 2022-07-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States