NCT03028233

Healthy Kids & Families: Overcoming Social, Environmental and Family Barriers to Childhood Obesity Prevention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 244 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study will test the impact of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families overcome barriers to childhood obesity prevention. Barriers include social, environmental, and family issues. This intervention will be compared to a control condition consisting of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families improve positive parenting skills.

Detailed description

The study will test the impact of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families overcome barriers to childhood obesity prevention. Barriers include social, environmental, and family issues. This intervention will be compared to a control condition consisting of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered intervention aimed at helping families improve positive parenting skills. The intervention uses multiple delivery modalities to maintain novelty and prevent attrition/burden. These include home visits, telephone contacts, print (literacy sensitive newsletters), social media (Facebook), and community events. Parents and children will complete scheduled assessments at baseline, 6-, 12-, 18- and 24-month follow-up. The Specific Aims are: Aim 1: To determine the effectiveness of the intervention compared to the control condition on child physical activity, healthy eating, BMI and utilization of built environment resources. Aim 2: To determine the effectiveness of the intervention compared to the control condition on parent physical activity, healthy eating, BMI. Aim 3: To examine the potential scalability of the intervention guided by the RE-AIM (Reach Effectiveness Adoption Implementation Maintenance) model.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Lifestyle	A Community Health Worker coaches families regarding healthy eating, physical activity, and obesity prevention, and promotes the use of existing built environment resources.
BEHAVIORAL	Positive Parenting	A Community Health Worker coaches parents on improving positive parenting skills and promotes the use of relevant community resources.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-22
• Completion: 2019-04-22
• First posted: 2017-01-23
• Last updated: 2019-05-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States