NCT03330743

Parent Mentor Interventions for Early Childhood Obesity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 188 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this clinical trial is to identify the most effective strategy for intervention to change behaviors and affect weight status in obese children 2-5 years of age within the context of early childhood education centers.

Detailed description

The primary aim is to test an intervention to disseminate and promote the adoption of positive deviance behaviors among parents of obese Hispanic children using peer mentors. This trial will evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of this approach in reducing adiposity among a high-risk population of children. Our central hypothesis is that children randomized to the intervention with a parent mentor using positive deviance methods with have a greater reduction in adiposity as measured by body mass index (BMI) compared with a parent mentor using traditional education or a control receiving usual education.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Parent Mentor with Standard Education	Parent mentors will provide coaching based on the current guidelines around diet and physical activity
BEHAVIORAL	Parent Mentor with Positive Deviance	Parent mentors will provide coaching based on findings from the positive deviance study

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2020-09-01
• Completion: 2020-09-01
• First posted: 2017-11-06
• Last updated: 2022-04-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States