NCT04072549

Reducing Health Disparities in Childhood Obesity

Reducing Health Disparities in Childhood Obesity Using Financial Incentives in Low-income Households

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 651 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, we will address cost barriers to participating in summer programs and hypothesize this will lead to marked improvements in children's obesogenic behaviors and a reduction in excessive, unhealthy weight gain over summer.

Detailed description

For this study, we will rigorously test the impact of providing access to existing community-operated summer programs on weight status (i.e., BMI z-score) and obesogenic behaviors of 1st-3rd grade children from low-income households. Using a pragmatic, Type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized design, we will compare changes in weight status and obesogenic behaviors of children from low-income households randomized to one of two conditions: free summer programming or comparison/control.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Free Summer Programming	The summer day camps are not singularly focused, such as sport camps or academic only camps. Rather, the camps provide indoor and outdoor opportunities for children to be physically active each day, provide enrichment and academic programming, as well as provide breakfast, lunch, and snacks. To standardize programming, the schools operate their camps on the same daily schedules which are developed by the same district-level personnel, with identical programmatic content delivered across all schools. The schools also provide the same meals to all children enrolled. The meals adhere to the Summer Food Service Program nutrition guidelines and are reimbursed through existing federal food programs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-08-26
• Primary completion: 2024-05-01
• Completion: 2024-05-01
• First posted: 2019-08-28
• Last updated: 2024-05-30

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States