NCT03219697

Preventing and Addressing At-obesity-Risk Early Years INtervention with Home Visits in Toronto (PARENT): a Pragmatic RCT

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 99 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Months – 48 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The PARENT Trial aims to determine if the Parents Together program consisting of parent workshops, home visits and coaching calls, will result in better health outcomes for children. The program which is facilitated by a Public Health Nurse seeks to encourage healthy lifestyle, help build strong family relationships, and promote child mental health.

Detailed description

This study will determine whether a primary care based intervention that combines group based parenting skills training and public health nurse home visits with a focus on healthy nutrition, activity and sleep, compared to regular health care will lead to improved weight status in 18 months- 4 year old children. Healthy children at risk for obesity will be identified through primary care practices participating in TARGet Kids!. Families who participate in this study will be randomly assigned (having an equal chance of being in either group) to one of the two study groups that will run for 6-months: Group A: Receive 8 weeks of group parenting education sessions, 2 additional group sessions, with 2-4 public health nurse home/virtual visits Group B: Receive regular health care

Conditions

• Child Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parenting education program	8-week parent/caregiver education program, followed by two booster sessions. You and/or your partner will attend weekly parenting sessions which will take place either at the office of your child's primary care provider or virtually. Our Toronto Public Health Nurse, will arrange 2 home visits/virtual visits with you and your family along with 4 coaching calls during the 6 months. This first home visit will include learning more about your routines at home, and what is available in your neighbourhood. The home visits will focus on helping to apply the messages and skills from the group sessions for your family, and making connections in your community that you find helpful such as recreational or nutrition programs or other supports for your family.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-01
• Primary completion: 2023-09-15
• Completion: 2023-09-15
• First posted: 2017-07-17
• Last updated: 2024-12-17

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Canada