Healthy Weight Poster, Multi-site Study

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Other: Exam room with poster

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03128112

IRB00042929

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a multi-site, cross-sectional study of 3-8 year old children and their parents presenting for a well-child check. The investigators are assessing whether a novel, educational, exam room poster can effectively prompt parents to ask their pediatricians about their children's weight status and improve parents' perceptions of their children's weight status.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a novel, educational, exam room poster can effectively prompt parents to ask their pediatricians about their children's weight status. Exam rooms within clinics will be randomized to either have the poster or not and parents will complete questionnaires assessing weight perception, whether they discussed their child's weight with their physician, and basic demographics. Participants who are in exam rooms with a poster will also answer questions specifically about the poster.

Enrollment: 965 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 3-8 years old presenting to pediatric clinic for a well-child visit.
• Parents of include children who speak English or Spanish and are able to complete a written survey.

Exclusion criteria

• Parents that are <18 years old
• Children with no documented weight or height for their visit
• Any medical condition that would affect weight gain or growth such as failure to thrive, congenital heart defect, etc.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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965 participants in 2 patient groups

Exam room without poster

No Intervention group

Description:

All parents will be asked to fill out a questionnaire detailing basic demographic information as well as their perception of their child's weight. Parents who are in exam rooms without posters will be ask to fill out a second short questionnaire after seeing their physician that will ask parents whether they discussed their child's weight status with their physician and whether they believe their own child is: very overweight, overweight, healthy weight, underweight, or very underweight.

Exam room with poster

Active Comparator group

Description:

All parents will be asked to fill out a questionnaire detailing basic demographic information as well as their perception of their child's weight. Parents who are in exam rooms with posters will be directed to read the poster on the exam room wall. After viewing the poster and after seeing their physician, parents will be ask to fill out a second short questionnaire that will ask parents whether they discussed their child's weight status with their physician, whether this conversation was prompted by the poster, and whether they believe their own child is very overweight, overweight, healthy weight, underweight, or very underweight.

Treatment:

Other: Exam room with poster