NCT05950620

Bringing Weight Management Into the Primary Care Pediatric Practice

Pilot and Feasibility Project to Establish a Childhood Nutrition and Health Clinic Managing Weight and Obesity Complications in a Primary Care Pediatric Practice

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

This project aims to move what is currently a specialty-care model for the management of obesity of children and adolescents into the primary care setting.

Detailed description

The goal of this project is to create a sustainable clinical model in the primary care setting that improves nutritional health, lessens obesity, and addresses weight-related complications of children and adolescents to reduce risk for metabolic disease in later life. The primary objectives include tracking changes in BMI (both absolute and percentile) and levels of hemoglobin A1c, liver enzymes (AST, ALT levels), and lipids in patients seen in a primary care setting by a general pediatrician board-certified in obesity medicine. Secondary objectives include tracking patient adherence, follow-up, and retention.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medical obesity management.	Dietician visits, education, anti-obesity medications, and/or referral for metabolic-bariatric surgery as indicated by American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for obesity management.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-30
• Completion: 2026-06-30
• First posted: 2023-07-18
• Last updated: 2023-07-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States