Family Healthy Living Early Intervention Program (EIP)

University of Victoria

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Nutrition Disorders; Child Behavior; Obesity; Body Weight; Health Behavior; Child Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Healthy Living

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03643341

BC18-024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Childhood Healthy Weights Early Intervention Program (EIP) is a family-based pilot program that will promote healthy lifestyle practices for families whose children are off the healthy weight trajectory (e.g., BMI ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex) that do not need the intensive services of medically supervised programs. It is a lifestyle behaviour approach for promoting healthy weights in children. The EIP program consists of 10 weekly intervention sessions (1.5 hours per session) followed by 4 maintenance sessions and is age specific (age 8-12). During the intervention, participants will also have access to digital educational content that is supplementary to what is provided during the individual sessions. The program will be integrated and aligned with existing BC-specific childhood healthy weights programs (e.g. the HealthLinkBC Eating and Activity Program for Kids). The EIP pilot will run from October-December 2018 with 8 child programs (age 8-12). Participants who do not qualify for this program (e.g., BMI ≤ 85th percentile for age and sex) will be offered a 10 week online program which is similar in educational content as the EIP program.

Enrollment: 105 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Child with BMI ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex
• Child is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian
• At least one member of the family have to be able to speak and read English
• Family agrees to attend group meetings over 10 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Child unavailable to attend group weekly sessions
• Parent or guardian unavailable to attend group weekly sessions
• Participating child or parent, according to parent report, has medical condition contraindicating mild energy restriction or moderate physical activity, and medical clearance was not obtained

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

Family Healthy Living Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Children aged 8-12 and at least one caregiver will meet for 10 weekly face-to-face and online intervention sessions (1.5 hours per session). Four biweekly maintenance sessions will follow the main program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Healthy Living

Wait-list control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Children aged 8-12 will be randomly assigned to the wait-list control group until after the study.