NCT02965729

Our Lifestyles Our Lives

Our Lifestyles, Our Lives: Obesity Treatment and Physical Activity Promotion for Underserved Children and Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of step goals with pedometers to improve children's weight loss, physical activity, and psychosocial health during behavioral treatment. Children with overweight or obesity were assigned to receive the behavioral treatment alone, plus pedometers, or plus pedometers with step goals.

Detailed description

A total of 105 overweight and obese children ages 8 to 17 years participated in a 10-week family-based weight management intervention focusing on physical activity, nutrition, and behavioral modification. A quasi-experimental design was used to group cohorts into three conditions: two cohorts had no pedometer (n=24); two cohorts had pedometer only (n=25); and four cohorts had pedometer with step goals (i.e. 500 steps/day weekly increase above baseline; n=56). Height and weight were measured at baseline and week 10 and used to calculate body mass index (BMI). Analysis of covariance was performed to examine difference by condition for change in weight, BMI, and BMI z-score, controlling for age and baseline value. Differences in steps/day and psychosocial health were compared between the two pedometer conditions.

Conditions

• Pediatric Obesity
• Weight Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family-based weight management	The "Our Lifestyles, Our Lives" family-based weight management intervention consisted of 10 weekly 90-minute group sessions focused on physical activity, nutrition, and behavioral modification. Parents and siblings were encouraged to join the participant in these sessions. Sessions were interactive and included cooking demonstrations, light to moderate intensity physical activity that engaged all family members, and behavioral counseling sessions in both mixed (parent and child) and parent-only format.
BEHAVIORAL	Pedometer	In addition to participating in the family-based weight management intervention, participants were given a pedometer (Omron HJ-324U, Omron Healthcare, Lake Forest, IL) and instructions at session 1. Participants were asked to wear the pedometer every day for the entirety of the program and return at session 10.
BEHAVIORAL	Individualized step goals	In addition to participating in the family-based weight management intervention, participants were given a step goal to increase their activity by 500 steps each week (above baseline calculated as average daily steps/day during week 1).

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2016-11-17
• Last updated: 2022-08-29
• Results posted: 2019-08-07