Church, Extension and Academic Partners Empowering Healthy Families
Stopped early · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Obesity
In brief
The project will address health disparities via a community-engaged approach in partnership with black churches. The long-term goals of this integrated project are to: 1) prevent and reduce childhood obesity through improved parenting practices and home environment related to obesity; 2) expand Extension capacity for community-engaged research and collaborative programming with faith-based organizations; 3) enhance Extension strategies for recruiting and training community volunteers to extend Extension reach; and 4) train future health professionals to provide culturally appropriate collaborative community-based health programs. The project will target the school-aged subset (ages 6-11, first through fifth grade) of the USDA target age range of ages 2-19. The 14-month randomized control trial design of the research component will generate new knowledge regarding effectiveness of a integrated family-based intervention enhanced with social and environmental (church) support to prevent obesity in school-aged children. The research design with a financial literacy active control condition and the primary nutrition and physical activity intervention being tested meets two needs expressed by the community partner and allows rigorous evaluation of both Extension programs. It is hypothesized that parents in the intervention group will have higher levels of self-efficacy for obesity-prevention behaviors, parenting practices related to food and physical activity, improved home food and physical activity. The long term impact is to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03980262
- Run by
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- People needed
- 109
- Starts
- 2019-02-19
- Expected to finish
- 2021-09-11
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-09-28
Who can join
Age: 6 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- a parent or primary caregiver and child (age 6-10) dyad living in the same household
- English-speaking
You may not qualify if…
- Parent does not have a child between the ages of 6 and 11
- Target child does not live or spend significant time with parent/caregiver
- non-English speaking
Where it is running
- Baptist General Convention of Virginia — Richmond, Virginia, United States
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