Parent Mentor Interventions for Early Childhood Obesity

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity, Childhood

Treatments: Behavioral: Parent Mentor with Standard Education; Behavioral: Parent Mentor with Positive Deviance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03330743

STUDY00017356

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this clinical trial is to identify the most effective strategy for intervention to change behaviors and affect weight status in obese children 2-5 years of age within the context of early childhood education centers.

Full description

The primary aim is to test an intervention to disseminate and promote the adoption of positive deviance behaviors among parents of obese Hispanic children using peer mentors. This trial will evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of this approach in reducing adiposity among a high-risk population of children.

Our central hypothesis is that children randomized to the intervention with a parent mentor using positive deviance methods with have a greater reduction in adiposity as measured by body mass index (BMI) compared with a parent mentor using traditional education or a control receiving usual education.

Enrollment: 188 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 2-5 years of age child, Hispanic ethnicity, attends the Head Start facility

Exclusion criteria

• any major medical disorder impairing growth or development

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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188 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Usual care

No Intervention group

Parent Mentor

Placebo Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Mentor with Standard Education

Parent Mentor with Positive Deviance

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Mentor with Positive Deviance