Developing and Testing Implementation Strategies for Evidence-Based Obesity Prevention in Childcare

University of Arkansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: WISE (We Inspire Smart Eating)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03075085

K01DK110141-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

205335

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigators will pilot test the impact of an enhanced implementation strategy on implementation and child health outcomes using continuous formative evaluation. Investigators will test the hypothesis that better fidelity to the implementation strategy (WISE) is positively related to child outcomes (e.g., child fruit and vegetable intake, BMI).

Full description

Investigators will determine whether the enhanced strategy is feasible, acceptable, and demonstrates improved implementation, fidelity, and sustainability using a Hybrid Type 3 implementation design. Investigators expect that the effectiveness of WISE on child outcomes will vary by the level of implementation fidelity, and a Hybrid 3 design allows for us to explore this hypothesis).

Enrollment: 696 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Early childhood educators from our partnering Head Start agency

Exclusion criteria

• Secondary Outcome Inclusion Criteria:
• Children aged 3-5 years old in our partnering Head Start agency

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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696 participants in 2 patient groups

Basic WISE strategy

Active Comparator group

Description:

These participants will be asked to implement the basic WISE strategy used in previous studies.

Treatment:

Behavioral: WISE (We Inspire Smart Eating)

Enhanced WISE strategy

Experimental group

Description:

These participants will be asked to implement the enhanced WISE strategy.

Treatment:

Behavioral: WISE (We Inspire Smart Eating)