The Colorado LEAP Study: A Socioecological Approach to Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood

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Conditions studied: Childhood Obesity

In brief

The Colorado Longitudinal Eating And Physical activity (LEAP) Study utilizes a social ecological approach to explore individual, family and environmental factors and their relationship to child weight status over a 3 year timeframe. Our primary research questions are as follows: 1. Are behavior changes (increased willingness to try new foods and gross motor skills) from a preschool nutrition and activity program, The Food Friends®, sustained through early elementary school? 2. Do The Food Friends® programs have an impact on reducing the percentage of children considered overweight and/or obese over a 3 year timeframe? 3. Do food preference and gross motor performance directly affect child weight status or are they mediators to dietary intake and physical activity?

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01937481

Run by

Colorado State University

People needed

230

Starts

2010-09-01

Expected to finish

2017-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-07-24

Who can join

Age: 4 and older, up to 7. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children enrolled in participating schools; entering kindergarten the year after recruitment

You may not qualify if…

• Children not entering kindergarten within one year of recruitment.

Where it is running

• Brush School District RE 2J — Brush, Colorado, United States
• Buena Vista School District — Buena Vista, Colorado, United States
• Iliff Head Start — Iliff, Colorado, United States
• Lake County School District — Leadville, Colorado, United States
• Salida School District — Salida, Colorado, United States
• RE-1 Valley School District — Sterling, Colorado, United States

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