WAVE~Ripples for Change: Obesity Prevention in Active Youth

Oregon State University (OSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity Prevention

Treatments: Other: Newsletter; Behavioral: Nutrition lessons; Behavioral: Virtual world learning environment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03215485

6317

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intervention targets youth ages 14 - 19 participating in soccer teams. The intervention group will be given face to face nutrition lessons and have access to an online immersive learning environment. The comparison group will not. The project will test if the immersive learning environment is effective in preventing unhealthy weight gain.

Full description

Active youth are just as likely to develop poor dietary habits that can contribute to obesity later in life, after high school sports has ended. However, youth in sports may provide a key "window of opportunity" to teach them about eating health foods if that information is tied to sport performance. This project will test to see if that is true.

The virtual world is an idea medium for learning for this project. The project will test whether it indeed can result in behavior change more effectively than just more traditional face to face learning.

Enrollment: 498 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• youth ages 14 - 19 at baseline
• enrolled in a high school soccer program
• living with a parent/caregiver in Oregon
• without medical condition that hinders them from consuming normal healthy diets
• has assess to the internet during the 2-year study
• proficient in English

Exclusion criteria

• non-English speakers (youth)
• prisoners

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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498 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

All intervention youth participants will receive three components: 1. Nutrition lessons 2. Virtual World learning environment 3. Newsletters

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual world learning environment

Behavioral: Nutrition lessons

Other: Newsletter

Comparison

Active Comparator group

Description:

All comparison youth participants will only receive one component: 1) Newsletters

Treatment:

Other: Newsletter