Evaluation of Child Care Staff Weight Management Program

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Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

The goal of this 12-month cluster clinical trial is to evaluate if improving child care providers' health behaviors using an online provider weight management program elicits meaningful change in dietary and physical activity behaviors in 2-5-year-old preschool children in their care and the child care environment. The study sample will include 84 child care centers. Including: 84 center directors, 168 2-5-year-old classroom teachers, 672 2-5-year old children. Some centers will do only the online Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (Go NAPSACC) program. This program works with child care center directors to make changes to their center around child nutrition and physical activity to foster healthier habits for the children enrolled in their care. Other centers will do Go NAPSACC Enhanced. This will include center directors doing Go NAPSACC and 2-5 year old teachers doing an online weight management program with support. Researchers will compare centers in Go NAPSACC with centers in Go NAPSACC Enhanced to see if there are greater improvements in children's diet quality and physical activity, as well as the nutrition and physical activity environment of centers in the Go NAPSACC Enhanced group. Additionally, they will see if there are greater improvements in teachers' weight, diet quality, and physical activity in centers using Go NAPSACC Enhanced.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05656807

Run by

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

924

Starts

2023-01-18

Expected to finish

2027-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-23

Who can join

Age: 2 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Child Care Centers:
• Be open year-round
• Licensed with no plans to close in the next 2 years
• Been in operation for at least 1 year
• Have at least two classrooms serving children 2-5 years-old
• Serve at least lunch to the 2-5-year old children
• Have no history of Go NAPSACC participation in the past 6 months
• Two 2-5-year-old classroom providers and 4 parents from each classroom must provide consent to participate in the study
• Child Care Providers (Directors and Teachers):
• Ability to provide informed consent.
• Age 18 years or older.
• Teacher only: Be a teacher in a 2-5-year-old classroom.
• Teacher only: Not pregnant, nor planning to become pregnant in the next year
• Children:
• Be in a classroom with a participating child care teacher.
• Be 2-5 years old.
• The consenting primary caregiver must be able to read English

You may not qualify if…

• Child Care Centers:
• Serve only non-English speaking families

Where it is running

• UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States (enrolling)

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