Competency-based Approaches to Community Health

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity, Childhood

In brief

This study is a family-centered, community-based intervention to prevent and treat childhood obesity among 3-5 year old children from undeserved communities. Half of participants will receive a healthy lifestyle intervention and half of participants will receive a school-readiness intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03141151

Run by

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

People needed

117

Starts

2017-05-16

Expected to finish

2018-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-20

Who can join

Age: 3 and older, up to 5. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Three-to-five year old child
• Spanish or English-speaking
• Child's BMI ≥ 50%
• Parental commitment to participate in a year long study
• Consistent phone access
• Parent age ≥ 18 years
• Child completion of baseline data collection on height, weight, and waist circumference and all willing survey items completed by the parent
• Parents and children must be healthy (parents with controlled medical conditions will also be eligible).
• Dyad must be considered underserved which will be indicated by the parents self-reporting if they or someone in their household participate in one of these programs or services: TennCare, CoverKids, WIC, Food Stamps (SNAP), Free and Reduced Price School Lunch and Breakfast, Families First (TANF), and/or subsidized housing

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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