Clinical trial NCT03550248: Healthy Together Program Evaluation (Phase 3)
Official title: Healthy Weights for Children Project (Phase 3)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Overweight and Obesity
Keywords: Healthy Weights
Health Promotion
Scale-up
Family Health
Prevention
Childhood Obesity
Physical Activity
Cooking Activity
Family education model
Lead sponsor: University of British Columbia
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
name: The Bridge Youth and Family Services, Kelowna, BC, Canada
First posted: 2018-06-08
Enrollment: 3400
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Participating organizations will deliver the Healthy Together (HT) program to children/youth and their parents/caregivers. Participants in the program will be invited to complete questionnaires to evaluate the program at mid point (after 15 sessions) and post program (after 30 sessions).
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Healthy Together is a program that promotes the achievement and maintenance of healthy weights in children and their families.

Detailed description: The purpose of the Phase 3 scale up project is to expand the reach and impact of Healthy Together (HT), by supporting the integration of the HT program into core services of organizations serving children (up to 18 years) and families, particularly those from under-served populations across diverse communities and settings in Canada. The HT program offers a flexible, effective, integrated approach, relevant to multiple contexts, creating potential to become a sustainable approach to promoting healthier weights in Canadian children. The objectives of the evaluation for Phase 3 are to:

1. Describe the effectiveness of the HT program in relation to knowledge, attitude and behavior change at the individual, family, and community level.
2. Monitor quality and sustainability of HT, when offered as part of core service by organizations to meet diverse community needs and cultural contexts.
3. Create an effective knowledge mobilization framework to increase practice and policy influence of HT, in collaboration with regional, provincial and national networks.

Eligibility criteria: Community partner organizations with capacity and infrastructure to implement the HT program are eligible to be implementation sites. Priority is given to community organizations serving Indigenous, immigrants/refugees, low income/low literacy groups, and families residing in rural communities. All sites will be required to integrate HT into their existing services.

Inclusion criteria for each participant group are as follows:

Families: HT is designed for children (up to 18 years of age) and families. Children and families participating in programs offered by the partner organizations are eligible to attend HT. All interested families will be able to access the program regardless of their previous knowledge or skill level. Participants do not have to be overweight/obese to participate in sessions.

HT Facilitators: Staff members who are identified by the partner organizations, trained to implement the HT program and directly involved in HT program delivery will be eligible to participate in the evaluation.

Directors of Partner Organizations: Partner organizations will be asked to identify a director (supervisor) that has administrative responsibility for overseeing the delivery of services for children/families that includes the HT program.

National Advisory Committee (NAC): Members of the National Advisory Committee established by The Bridge Youth and Family Service Society for Phase 3 of this project.

Exclusion Criteria:

Family members who have not participated in any of the HT sessions offered as part of on-going services provided by the partner organization.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Changes in Physical Activity Behaviour
timeFrame: At mid point in the HT program (i.e., following the first 15 weekly sessions) and at HT program completion (i.e., following the second set of 15 weekly sessions)
measure: Changes in Healthy Eating
timeFrame: At mid point in the HT program (i.e., following the first 15 weekly sessions) and at HT program completion (i.e., following the second set of 15 weekly sessions)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge of healthy diet and physical activity behaviors
timeFrame: At mid point in the HT program (i.e., following the first 15 weekly sessions) and at HT program completion (i.e., following the second set of 15 weekly sessions)
Other outcomes:
measure: Sustainability assessment (HT program implementation)
timeFrame: At HT program completion (i.e., following delivery of 30 weekly sessions) and 1 year follow-up
measure: Level of success in increasing practice and policy influence of the HT program
timeFrame: Year 1, 2, and 3
Locations:
city: Kelowna
country: Canada
facility: Bridge Youth and Family Services
state: British Columbia
Study officials:
affiliation: University of British Columbia
name: Joan L Bottorff, PhD, RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Bottorff JL, Huisken A, Hopkins M, Nesmith C. A RE-AIM evaluation of Healthy Together: a family-centred program to support children's healthy weights. BMC Public Health. 2020 Nov 23;20(1):1754. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09737-8.