Bringing Weight Management Into the Primary Care Pediatric Practice

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obesity, Childhood

Treatments: Other: Medical obesity management.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05950620

IRB 24927

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Children with obesity (BMI > 30 kg/m2 or > 95th percentile) or in need of weight management of unwanted weight gain.

Exclusion criteria

None.

Trial design

400 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Description:

Pediatric patients with obesity or in need of weight management for unwanted weight gain.

Treatment:

Other: Medical obesity management.

Controls

Description:

Historic controls matched to the Intervention group on age, sex, and BMI percentile.