Next Steps: a Community-led Solution to Address Childhood Obesity

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Nutrition/physical activity intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01912859

1303S29343

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of Next Steps pilot intervention is to develop and test a new program designed to help low-income multiethnic families with overweight or obese children achieve long-term maintenance of healthful behaviors following completion of Hennepin County Medical Center's (HCMC) 16-week intensive obesity management course (Taking Steps Together (TST)).

Full description

Next Steps is a community based pilot intervention study conducted in collaboration between community leaders, the University of Minnesota, Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and The Family Partnership. The study collaborators will develop and test a new program designed to help low-income multiethnic families with overweight or obese children achieve long-term maintenance of healthful behaviors following completion of HCMC's 16-week intensive obesity management course (Taking Steps Together (TST)). Next Steps, the focus of this study, will comprise a network of parent-led, community-based health maintenance programs that will be offered to TST graduate families.

Project Aims:

Aim 1: Establish a core parent leadership group and health maintenance program network that is self-sustaining and can serve the community for years to come.

Aim 2: Test the feasibility, acceptability and sustainability of the Next Steps programs.

Aim 3: Assess the impact of the Next Steps programs on helping participant families sustain or improve healthful behaviors and achieve or maintain healthy body mass index (BMI).

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Families that are graduates of the Taking Step Together program.
• Families with at least one overweight or obese child between the ages of 7-17.
• Family members of all ages who have graduated from the Taking Steps Together program will be included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Families who are not graduates of the Taking Steps Together program.
• Families who do not have one child that is between the ages of 7-17 and who is overweight or obese

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Nutrition/physical activity intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention, Next Steps, comprises a network of community-led health maintenance programs offered to graduates of an initial intensive obesity course. These health maintenance programs will aim to help participants maintain and improve healthful behaviors and body mass indices.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nutrition/physical activity intervention

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the "No Intervention" arm will not have access to the Next Steps programs and will receive only usual care through their health care clinic.