Parent Mentors Using Positive Deviance in Childhood Obesity

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Promotion of positive deviance behaviors; Behavioral: Promotion of healthy behaviors

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02373670

14-470H

Details and patient eligibility

About

A feasibility study randomizing participants (parents of children age 2-5 years old) to receive either education or a parent mentor with the aim of improving health behaviors and improving their body mass index z-score.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI z-score >2

Exclusion criteria

• Medical conditions or receiving medications affecting weight

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Parent Mentor

Experimental group

Description:

Parent mentors using positive deviance findings to promote healthy behaviors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promotion of positive deviance behaviors

Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

Community health workers providing health education to promote healthy behaviors

Treatment:

Behavioral: Promotion of healthy behaviors