Can a Brief Primary Care Intervention Affect Healthy Weight Habits

Vanderbilt University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Grow Nicely

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01533896

grownicely

Details and patient eligibility

About

Parents should receive anticipatory guidance about obesity prevention as part of the routine well child visit. Educational resources are needed to help physicians routinely provide these important anticipatory guidance messages. In this study, consecutive parents will be exposed to routine anticipatory guidance messages before the well child visit with the physician. After the clinic visit, parents will be invited to participate in a research study to determine if they plan any changes at home. The key research question of this study is: Can a brief multimedia intervention help parents develop plans to help their children have a healthy weight?

Enrollment: 221 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English and Spanish speaking parents of 2-12 year old children presenting to the pediatric primary care clinic.

Exclusion criteria

• Parent does not speak English or Spanish.
• Child presenting for an acute care visit.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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221 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents and children in the control group received routine primary care during the well child visit.

Grow Nicely

Experimental group

Description:

Grow Nicely multimedia program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Grow Nicely