NCT03304249

Rural Disparities in Pediatric Obesity: The iAmHealthy Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 296 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn if providing a family-based group program using mobile health technology (iAmHealthy Healthy Lifestyles Program) is effective at improving child weight, nutrition, and physical activity.

Detailed description

This is a cluster-randomized study that will test the iAmHealthy Healthy Lifestyles Program versus a standard approach to weight loss in kids current in 2nd thru 4th grade. The iAmHealthy Healthy Lifestyles Program utilizes mobile tools to deliver the weight loss program to kids and families in rural settings. This study will include kids from schools in rural cities/counties, and their parents, and they will be randomly assigned to a group by their school. The iAmHealthy Healthy Lifestyles Program is a rurally tailored telemedicine intervention. It delivers behavioral, nutritional, and physical activity topics for kids and their families. The total length of the intervention will be about 8 months, which coincides with the length of a typical school year.

Conditions

• Weight Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	iAmHealthy Healthy Lifestyles Program	iAmHealthy is behavioral intervention focused on nutrition, behavior and physical activity that engages parents and children in treatment using mobile health (mHealth) technology. Meetings are approximately one hour. Participants will log in for 8 weekly group sessions, followed by 6 monthly sessions.
OTHER	Newsletter	Weight loss materials delivered via a newsletter. Each newsletter will cover nutritional, exercise, and behavioral suggestions to improve the child's health. The newsletter will be sent in the mail once a month for 8 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-13
• Primary completion: 2021-11-30
• Completion: 2022-06-20
• First posted: 2017-10-06
• Last updated: 2023-09-13
• Results posted: 2023-09-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States