NCT03271801

Skills Training Within a Family-based Obesity Treatment Intervention

Skills Training in Stimulus Control of Meals and Snacks Within a Family-based Obesity Treatment Intervention

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Delaware · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is investigating the impact of a skills training program in stimulus control of meals and snacks on zBMI. Participants will be randomized to a standard family-based obesity treatment intervention with education on child health or a standard family-based obesity treatment intervention with experiential learning about meal stimulus control strategies.

Detailed description

Family-based obesity treatment interventions can successfully reduce weight in children, but are often limited in the practice of skills being taught during treatment sessions. Skills training focused on a particular behavioral strategy can provide parents with an experiential component of learning where the information learned as part of a family-based obesity treatment intervention is also practiced. Health education simply provides knowledge to a family about a topic.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	child health education	10, 60-minute sessions with a family-based obesity treatment program implemented for the first 40-minutes of each session followed by 20 minutes of education about a child health topic.
BEHAVIORAL	skills training	10, 60-minute sessions with a family-based obesity treatment program implemented for the first 40-minutes of each session followed by 20 minutes of experiential learning about stimulus control strategies (portion size, energy density, variety).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2019-02-28
• Completion: 2019-02-28
• First posted: 2017-09-05
• Last updated: 2019-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States