Achieving Energy Balance in Post Partum Teens (BALANCE)

The Washington University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: BALANCE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01617486

5R01CA121534 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

201105325

Details and patient eligibility

About

This proposal will test Balance Adolescent Lifestyle Activities and Nutrition Choices for Energy (BALANCE), a multilevel intervention administered through Parents as Teachers (PAT) and designed to reduce overweight in postpartum teens. The intervention will focus on the replacement of 'obesogenic' patterns (such as high soda intake, excess portion size, and sedentary activity) with 'energy' patterns (such as water consumption, appropriate portion size, and walking).

Enrollment: 1,325 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• between 12 to 20 years of age
• less than 1 year post partum
• current participant in Parents as Teachers

Exclusion criteria

• currently pregnant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,325 participants in 1 patient group

BALANCE

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: BALANCE