Dynamo: a Tailored Lifestyle Promotion Intervention Among Pediatric Patients With Cardiometabolic Risk Factors (CIRCUIT)

St. Justine's Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obese

Treatments: Behavioral: Traditional PA counseling; Behavioral: Sensor based PA intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01736748

CIRCUIT 1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Dyn@mo lifestyle intervention (CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada) targets children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years old with cardiometabolic risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, disorders in glucose regulation or dyslipidemia. Its primary goal is to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary time to improve childrens' cardiometabolic profile. To do so, the intervention relies on gathering data on mobility and physical activity using wearable sensors. These data provide a detailed picture of real-life conditions and physical activity levels, improving the health care professional's ability to tailor counseling. The investigators are presently in the implementation phase of this intervention.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children ages 6 to 18 years of age with a BMI > 95th percentile for age and sex

Exclusion criteria

• children with a physical or psychological condition that would impair their ability to participate in physical activity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Sensor based PA intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Children will be equipped with a heart rate monitor, a GPS receiver and an accelerometer for collection of heart rate, mobility and physical activity free-living data during a 7-day period. This will provide a 'spatio-behavioural diagnosis' using a map-based interactive web application. This data will be used to developed a tailored plan to promote physical activity in the child's every day environment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sensor based PA intervention

Traditional PA counseling

Other group

Description:

In this arm, while children will wear the same sensors as in the intervention arm, the intervention will not rely on data gathered using the wearable sensors. Rather, a traditional physical activity counseling strategy will be adopted in this control group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Traditional PA counseling