Skills Training Within a Family-based Obesity Treatment Intervention

University of Delaware

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Obesity, Childhood

Treatments: Behavioral: skills training; Behavioral: child health education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03271801

906996-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is investigating the impact of a skills training program in stimulus control of meals and snacks on zBMI. Participants will be randomized to a standard family-based obesity treatment intervention with education on child health or a standard family-based obesity treatment intervention with experiential learning about meal stimulus control strategies.

Full description

Family-based obesity treatment interventions can successfully reduce weight in children, but are often limited in the practice of skills being taught during treatment sessions.

Skills training focused on a particular behavioral strategy can provide parents with an experiential component of learning where the information learned as part of a family-based obesity treatment intervention is also practiced. Health education simply provides knowledge to a family about a topic.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 8 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• caregiver of child is ≥18 years of age;
• the caregiver has a child between the ages of 4 and 8 years-old who is classified as overweight (body mass index for age ≥ 85th percentile);
• the caregiver and child are able to read, speak and understand English due to delivery of the program in English;
• has transportation to the University of Delaware; and
• is willing and able to commit to the 3-month study.

Exclusion criteria

• the child has a medical condition impacting physical activity or eating (e.g. Type

  1 or Type 2 diabetes);

• the child have a medical condition that affects growth (e.g. Prader Willi Syndrome);

• the child is currently participating in a weight management program, and/or taking weight loss medication; or

• the caregiver or child has an inability to participate in regular physical activity.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

Child Health Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

The child health education condition will participate in a family-based obesity treatment program for the first 40 minutes of each session, followed by 20 minutes designated to education about a child health topic. Parents and children will be asked to self-monitor sugar-sweetened beverages, fruits, vegetables, and minutes of physical activity and screen time.

Treatment:

Behavioral: child health education

Skills Training

Experimental group

Description:

The skills training condition will participate in a family-based obesity treatment program for the first 40 minutes of each session followed by 20 minutes of experiential learning about meal stimulus control strategies. Parents and children will be asked to self-monitor sugar-sweetened beverages, fruits, vegetables, and minutes of physical activity and screen time. In addition they will self-monitor the use the following stimulus control strategies: portion control, energy density and variety.

Treatment:

Behavioral: skills training