Enhancing Family Based Treatment of Childhood Obesity Through Social Networks (CONNECT)

Kaiser Permanente

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard Treatment; Behavioral: Social Network Engagement+Std Treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02206529

211098

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop a Social Network Engagement (SNE) Intervention that will be integrated into a standard treatment program for childhood overweight. The investigators will conduct a pilot trial of SNE to assess feasibility and to estimate its effectiveness compared with historical controls who received standard treatment. The historical controls will be participants in the FOCUS trial (Family Overweight: Comparing Use of Strategies; NCT00746629).

Enrollment: 25 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria Children

• Age 7-13 years
• At or above the 85th percentile for age- and gender-specific BMI

Parents

• At least one overweight parent (BMI>25.0)

Parents and children

• English-speaking and at least at a second-grade reading level
• Live <50 miles from the treatment site.

Exclusion Children

• Conditions known to promote obesity (e.g., Prader-Willi),
• Participation in another weight control program
• Recently started taking weight-affecting medications (e.g., stimulants).

Parents and children

• Disability or illness that would preclude them from engaging in at least moderate-intensity physical activity,
• Current or prior diagnosed eating disturbance
• Thought disorder, suicidality, or substance abuse disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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25 participants in 2 patient groups

Social Network Engagement+Std Treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

Social Network Engagement = content and activities to help the parent engage his/her social network in supporting healthy lifestyle behaviors. Standard Treatment = family-based behavioral pediatric obesity treatment, as per protocol outlined in FOCUS trial (Family Overweight: Comparing Use of Strategies; NCT00746629)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social Network Engagement+Std Treatment

Standard Treatment

Other group

Description:

This comparator arm consists of historical controls, participants in the FOCUS trial who received standard treatment. Standard Treatment = family-based behavioral pediatric obesity treatment, as per protocol outlined in FOCUS trial (Family Overweight: Comparing Use of Strategies; NCT00746629)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard Treatment