NCT03643341

Family Healthy Living Early Intervention Program

Family-based, Healthy Living Intervention for Children With Overweight and Obesity and Their Families

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Victoria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Childhood Healthy Weights Early Intervention Program (EIP) is a family-based pilot program that will promote healthy lifestyle practices for families whose children are off the healthy weight trajectory (e.g., BMI ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex) that do not need the intensive services of medically supervised programs. It is a lifestyle behaviour approach for promoting healthy weights in children. The EIP program consists of 10 weekly intervention sessions (1.5 hours per session) followed by 4 maintenance sessions and is age specific (age 8-12). During the intervention, participants will also have access to digital educational content that is supplementary to what is provided during the individual sessions. The program will be integrated and aligned with existing BC-specific childhood healthy weights programs (e.g. the HealthLinkBC Eating and Activity Program for Kids). The EIP pilot will run from October-December 2018 with 8 child programs (age 8-12). Participants who do not qualify for this program (e.g., BMI ≤ 85th percentile for age and sex) will be offered a 10 week online program which is similar in educational content as the EIP program.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Health Behavior
• Child Behavior
• Child Obesity
• Nutrition Disorders
• Body Weight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Healthy Living	Children aged 8-12 and at least one caregiver will meet for 10 weekly intervention sessions (1.5 hours per session), and 4 extra sessions to be chosen by families and intervention Leaders. During the intervention, participants will also have access to digital educational content that is supplementary to what is provided during the individual sessions. Four biweekly maintenance sessions will follow the main program.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-10
• Primary completion: 2019-01-31
• Completion: 2019-03-31
• First posted: 2018-08-22
• Last updated: 2018-10-09

Locations

10 sites across 1 country: Canada