Treating Pre-School Children at Risk for Overweight in the Primary Care Setting

University at Buffalo (UB)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Overweight

Treatments

Behavioral: counseling focused on the child

Behavioral: family based lifestyle and behavioral counseling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01029834

1R01HD053773-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to test, in the primary care setting, the efficacy of an innovative intervention program for children aged 2-5 years with a BMI over the 85th percentile and one overweight parent (BMI >27 kg/m2.

Enrollment

105 patients

Sex

All

Ages

2 to 6 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

2-5 year old with a BMI greater than the 85th% for age and sex
one overweight parent (BMI>27kg/m2)
child with normal developmental milestones
history of adherence to 90% of scheduled primary care visits
parent must be at 5th grade reading and speaking of English language or the spanish language
no plans on moving out of the area for the 2 years subsequent to enrollment

Exclusion criteria

child with a height 2 SD below the mean for age and sex and/or pathological growth velocity
SGA
any chronic disorders influencing energy intake and/or growth
any orthopedic disorder preventing the child or the parent from ambulation normally and performing the activity prescribed by the program
any medication known to have the potential of affecting weight changes
parent or child with psychiatric and/or eating disorder
participating mother who is pregnant or planning a pregnancy
parent being acquainted with the parent of a previously randomized study participant