Clinical trial NCT01481948: Food, Fun, & Fitness Internet Program for Girls: Outcome Evaluation
Official title: Using Technology to Prevent Obesity Among African American Girls
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity
Keywords: physical activity
fruit and vegetable
water
girls
African American
online
Lead sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
First posted: 2011-11-30
Enrollment: 342
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 10
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this project is to reduce health disparities in obesity risk among 8-10 year old African American girls using a culturally sensitive and developmentally appropriate internet-based program with no face-to-face interaction. This study will conduct an outcome evaluation to test short and longer term effects on obesity risk.

Detailed description: This research will conduct an outcome evaluation on a promising web based obesity prevention program for 8-10 year old African American girls. A pilot study with 80 girls established its feasibility: recruitment goals were met; attrition rates were \< 10%; logon rates to the online program were 74.5%; and statistically significant increases in fruit and vegetable consumption and time spent being physically active were observed. The outcome evaluation will recruit 400 child-parent pairs to examine short and longer term effects of the program on obesity risk. It will also conduct mediation analyses to examine pathways of effect. At the end of the study, the web based program will be hosted on the CNRC web site. Although the use of the internet as a method for changing health behavior is not new, the use of an internet program alone, with no face to face interaction, is novel. This is one of the first programs to attempt this, particularly in an at-risk population.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 8-10 years old
* healthy
* African American
* parent willing to participate in data collection
* internet access
* personal email address

Exclusion Criteria:

* mental, physical, or medical conditions that limit fruit-vegetable consumption, physical activity, or ability to fully participate in the program and/or complete baseline and post assessment data collection
* taking medications that influence dietary behaviors, appetite, and/or physical activity

Primary outcomes:
measure: Body mass index percentile
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: fruit and vegetable consumption
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: physical activity
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: self efficacy
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: home availability
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: asking behaviors
timeFrame: 3 months
measure: fruit and vegetable consumption
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: physical activity
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: self efficacy
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: home availability
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: asking behaviors
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Baylor College of Medicine
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine
name: Deborah I Thompson, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Callender C, Liu Y, Moore CE, Thompson D. The baseline characteristics of parents and African American girls in an online obesity prevention program: A feasibility study. Prev Med Rep. 2017 May 19;7:110-115. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2017.05.011. eCollection 2017 Sep.
citation: Thompson D, Mahabir R, Bhatt R, Boutte C, Cantu D, Vazquez I, Callender C, Cullen K, Baranowski T, Liu Y, Walker C, Buday R. Butterfly Girls; promoting healthy diet and physical activity to young African American girls online: rationale and design. BMC Public Health. 2013 Aug 2;13:709. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-709.