The Healthy Families Project

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Childhood Obesity

In brief

A primary care approach to obesity prevention will be developed and tested in a randomized trial in 4 pediatric primary care practices. Enhanced screening for obesity risks and prompts for effective counseling at well visits of 4 to 10 year olds will be developed utilizing hand held technology( PDAs). The impact on the content and quality of clinician counseling will be assessed in exit survey prior to and after implementation. Among families interested in making a change to address nutrition or activity risk reported on the screener a cohort with children \> BMI 85% will be recruited. They will be randomized to mailed tailored supports to level of readiness to change versus a single generic informational mailing. The hypotheses are that 1)families that receive the enhanced office visit with screening will be more likely to plan to make changes compared to usual care; and 2) families receiving the tailored post visit supports will be less likely to gain weight than controls after 6 months.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01193374

Run by

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

People needed

149

Starts

2007-02-01

Expected to finish

2009-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-05-24

Who can join

Age: 4 and older, up to 10. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Families with children ages 4 to 11 years
• For post visit supports; Children > 85% for age BMI

Where it is running

• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
• Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center — Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

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