Health Outcomes of Teens Participating in Summer Employment Immersion Programs

Indiana University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prediabetic State; Pediatric Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Measurement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02886208

1604487508

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a collaboration between investigators and two community partners: a youth employment program and an urban farm. The community partners hire 300+ adolescents for summer jobs at various organizations. Approximately 120 adolescents will be employed with the urban farm site. As one component of their program evaluation plan, investigators will evaluate change in BMI of participants. The investigators hypothesize that there will be a reduction in BMI of those participants working at the urban farm site.

Full description

The investigators will measure height/weight/BMI of all participants located at the urban farm site. Investigators will also collect demographic data as well as other social data (example: food security).

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• employed by summer work program at urban farm

Exclusion criteria

• N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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83 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This study has a single arm. All participants in a summer employment program at an urban farm in Indianapolis, IN are invited to participate.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Measurement