Children's Healthy Living Community Randomized Trial
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Obesity, Acanthosis Nigricans, Central Obesity
In brief
The goal is to build social/cultural, political/economic, and physical/built environments that will promote active play and intake of healthy food to prevent young child obesity in the Pacific Region. Our methods will support local culture in order to achieve this goal in these remote, underserved native populations. CHL will engage the community, and focus on capacity building and sustainable environmental change. The focus of the CHL community-based program is to promote healthy eating and to increase physical activity. In order to demonstrate effectiveness, the investigators will recruit and measure children in six communities selected in each of our jurisdictions in the Pacific. These represent intervention communities, comparison communities, and temporal communities.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01881373
- Run by
- University of Hawaii
- People needed
- 9840
- Starts
- 2012-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2020-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-03-04
Who can join
Age: 2 and older, up to 8. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Community criteria
- Four (4) to six (6) communities in each of five (5) jurisdictions (Alaska, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam \& Hawai'i) chosen for community randomized program based on:
- 2000 U.S. Census criteria
- >1000 people
- >25% Native population,
- >10% under 5y
- CHL Staff Community Evaluation
- Sufficient Head Start/preschool, kindergarten
- Children live \& go to school in area
- Separation between communities to allow testing
- Access for CHL
- Sufficient community cohesiveness
- Sufficient settings for program (community centers, parks, stores…)
- Child criteria • 2-10 years of age
You may not qualify if…
- Child criteria
- Known orthopedic, psychological or neurologic impairments that prevent physical activity
- Presence or history of any metabolic or chronic health problems known to affect intermediary metabolism (e.g. untreated thyroid disease, cancer, hepatic disease, renal disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension)
- Irregular use of prescription or over-the-counter medications known to affect appetite, food intake or intermediary metabolism (e.g. appetite suppressants, lithium, antidepressants, etc.)
Where it is running
- University of Hawaii — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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