NCT03550248

Healthy Together Program Evaluation (Phase 3)

Healthy Weights for Children Project (Phase 3)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,400 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Healthy Together is a program that promotes the achievement and maintenance of healthy weights in children and their families.

Detailed description

The purpose of the Phase 3 scale up project is to expand the reach and impact of Healthy Together (HT), by supporting the integration of the HT program into core services of organizations serving children (up to 18 years) and families, particularly those from under-served populations across diverse communities and settings in Canada. The HT program offers a flexible, effective, integrated approach, relevant to multiple contexts, creating potential to become a sustainable approach to promoting healthier weights in Canadian children. The objectives of the evaluation for Phase 3 are to: 1. Describe the effectiveness of the HT program in relation to knowledge, attitude and behavior change at the individual, family, and community level. 2. Monitor quality and sustainability of HT, when offered as part of core service by organizations to meet diverse community needs and cultural contexts. 3. Create an effective knowledge mobilization framework to increase practice and policy influence of HT, in collaboration with regional, provincial and national networks.

Conditions

• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Together	The Healthy Together (HT) program is designed to reduce overweight and obesity among children and youth in priority populations such as Indigenous, immigrant and refugee, and low income families.The HT program consists of 30 sessions, each of which includes cooking and eating together, physical activity and a learning activity covering topics that promote healthy weights. The HT program is delivered by trained facilitators who are provided with a program manual and resources. Trained facilitators in participating community organizations offer the HT program by integrating it within core programming.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2020-03-30
• First posted: 2018-06-08
• Last updated: 2020-10-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada