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A Trial of an Integrated Clinic-community Intervention in Children and Adolescents With Obesity (Hearts and Parks)

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Duke University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Quality of Life
Childhood Obesity
Pediatric Obesity
Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Treatments

Behavioral: Hearts & Parks

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03339440
Pro00086684

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators propose a randomized controlled effectiveness trial to evaluate the integrated clinic-community model of child obesity treatment as compared with routine primary care.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate how different types of physical activity and nutrition education and support (in addition to normal clinical care) affect children's health. The investigators will be looking at changes in child BMI, physical activity, nutrition, and overall health. The investigators also hope to better understand biological differences in metabolism and the microbiome (the bacteria that grows normally on and in the body) in children with high BMI who are making lifestyle changes.

Enrollment

327 patients

Sex

All

Ages

5 to 18 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Child age 5-18 years
  • Child body mass index ≥ 95th %ile
  • Parent can speak and read in English or Spanish
  • Parent ownership of a device that is able to receive and send text messages

Exclusion criteria

  • Live farther than a 20-mile radius from the Healthy and Fit program site
  • Endogenous or genetic cause of obesity
  • Taking a medication that causes weight gain
  • Participation in a pediatric weight management program within 12 months
  • Parent or child significant health problem that would limit participation
  • Enrollment is above the max weekly enrollment of 60 participants/week)
  • Reported or planned pregnancy

Opt-out Criteria

• Primary care physician opts patient out of study for reasons including: severe obesity, urgent co-morbidities, parental unwillingness to be contacted by a research assistant, or at physician clinical judgment.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

327 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group
Experimental group
Description:
Patients in this group will be receiving the Hearts and Parks intervention.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Hearts & Parks
Control Group
No Intervention group
Description:
Patients in this group will continue receiving standard of care.

Trial contacts and locations

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