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Foundations of Fitness Program Pilot

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Dartmouth Health

Status

Completed

Conditions

Self Esteem
Body Mass Index
Health Behavior
Pediatric Obesity

Treatments

Other: Foundations of Fitness Program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Approximately 17% of US children have obesity resulting in significant childhood co-morbidities and increased lifetime risk of adult obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Guidelines recommend intensive lifestyle programs as first-line treatment, yet few pediatric practices are equipped to provide this. Clinical-community partnerships are well-positioned to address this care gap. This proposal aims to assess whether a community-delivered lifestyle program offered in adjunct to primary care obesity management is feasible, acceptable, effective, and easily implemented in a rural care setting. In this study, approximately 40 children aged 7-13 years old and their caregiver pairs will be recruited from a primary care pediatric clinic. Child-adult dyads will participate in a 24-week program that includes 2 phases, a 12-week usual care phase and a 12-week intervention phase. The intervention phase will include bi-weekly meetings of a community intensive lifestyle program which focuses on healthy diet, daily physical activity, self-esteem and support for individual and family behavior change. A mixed-methods approach using qualitative interviews and study questionnaires, combined with objective measures of adiposity and fitness will assess study outcomes.

Enrollment

29 patients

Sex

All

Ages

7 to 13 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 7-13 years;
  • BMI% ≥85th%;
  • Regional pediatric medical home patient;
  • English speaking child and parent/caregiver;

Exclusion criteria

  • Physical or developmental limitation to participation as determined by referring provider

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

29 participants in 2 patient groups

7-10 years old
Experimental group
Description:
Children-caregiver pairs will participate in a 24-week pilot that includes 2 phases, 12 weeks of usual care, followed by 12 weeks of Foundations of Fitness Program.
Treatment:
Other: Foundations of Fitness Program
11-13 years old
Experimental group
Description:
Children-caregiver pairs will participate in a 24-week pilot that includes 2 phases, 12 weeks of usual care, followed by 12 weeks of Foundations of Fitness Program.
Treatment:
Other: Foundations of Fitness Program

Trial contacts and locations

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