NCT04469816

AFRI Childhood Obesity Prevention Challenge Area

The Family Check-Up for Health: A Family-Centered Health Maintenance Approach to Improve Nutrition and Prevent Obesity in Early Childhood

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 217 (actual)
• Sponsor: Arizona State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation trial of the Family Check-Up 4 Health (FCU4Health), an adapted version of the Family Check-Up, in pediatric primary care. Patients will be recruited based on their age (2-5 years old) and randomized to receive the intervention, FCU4Health, or services as usual. All families will be assessed annually over three years.

Detailed description

The FCU4Health is an assessment-driven, Motivational Interviewing (MI) based, parent training program. Parents complete a comprehensive assessment, including questionnaire of the family environment, parenting skills, and child adjustment and health behaviors, and additional observation data. The FCU4Health coordinator reviews the assessment results with the parents, using MI strategies to engage families in making change to support child behavioral health, and to create tailored follow-up services which include parent training modules and referrals to additional support services in the community.

Conditions

• Clinical Trial

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Check-Up 4 Health	A parent-training intervention to improve child health, school readiness and manage obesity.
OTHER	Services as Usual	Services/Treatment as usual.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-17
• Primary completion: 2024-01-29
• Completion: 2024-01-31
• First posted: 2020-07-14
• Last updated: 2025-05-25

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States