Clinical trial NCT00628030: NOURISH: Nourishing Our Understanding of Role Modeling to Improve Support and Health
Official title: Parent Skills Training to Enhance Weight Loss in Overweight Children
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pediatric Obesity
Keywords: Behavioral intervention
Obesity prevention
Lead sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
First posted: 2008-03-04
Enrollment: 184
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The percentage of overweight children between the ages of 6 and 11 has nearly tripled in the last three decades, and rates are even higher among African Americans.Overweight children are at-risk for numerous health problems, thus effective treatments are urgently needed. This study will evaluate an innovative intervention for ethnically diverse parents (NOURISH), which focuses on helping parents role model and teach their children healthy behaviors.

Detailed description: Pediatric overweight is a national public health concern. The percentage of overweight children in the U.S. between the ages of 6 and 11 has nearly tripled in the last 3 decades. African American children are particularly at risk. Pediatric overweight is associated with numerous physical and psychological health problems. Moreover, overweight children are at significant risk for obesity in adulthood. Thus, a focus on pediatric overweight is an important step in the prevention of adult obesity.

Despite the urgent need for pediatric overweight interventions, outcomes of some of the most rigorous treatments are, at best, mixed. Although research has found that including parents in interventions for pediatric overweight has positive effects on outcomes, parental involvement is usually limited. Moreover, relatively few studies have included sufficient numbers of lower-SES, African American participants, a group at increased risk for pediatric overweight and associated complications. This study will evaluate the efficacy of an intensive intervention targeting ethnically diverse parents of overweight, children ages 6-11 (NOURISH-Nourishing Our Understanding of Role Modeling to Improve Support and Health).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* To qualify for participation, parents/caregivers must have a child between the ages of 6 and 11 with a BMI \> the 85th percentile \[128\].
* This child must also primarily reside in the participating caregiver's home.
* Participants also need to speak English fluently, and be able to understand and follow basic instructions and perform simple exercises.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Caregivers are ineligible if they are:

  1. non-ambulatory,
  2. pregnant,
  3. or have a clinical diagnosis that may be negatively impacted by exercise.
* Parents whose children have a medical condition or developmental disorder that precludes weight loss using conventional diet and exercise methods are also ineligible for participation.

All parents meeting study criteria will be offered participation in the randomized trial comparing NOURISH with a control group.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Child BMI
timeFrame: Basline, Posttest
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Child Feeding
timeFrame: Basline, Posttest
measure: Child Quality of Life
timeFrame: Basline, Posttest
measure: Parental BMI
timeFrame: Baseline, Posttest
measure: Parental Dietary Intake of Fat
timeFrame: Baseline, Posttest
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
name: Suzanne E. Mazzeo, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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