Clinical trial NCT00685555: Healthy Futures Project: A Community Based Obesity Prevention Program
Official title: SWITCH: Rationale, Design, and Implementation of a Community, School, and Family-based Intervention to Modify Behaviors Related to Childhood Obesity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: EARLY_PHASE1
Conditions: Overweight
Obesity
Keywords: Screen time
Fruits and Vegetable Consumption
Physical Activity
Obesity
Overweight
Lead sponsor: National Institute on Media and the Family
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Fairview Health Services
name: Medica
name: Healthy and Active America Foundation,
name: Cargill
name: Spunk Design Machine
name: Iowa State University
name: Michigan State University
name: University of Minnesota
First posted: 2008-05-28
Enrollment: 1300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 13
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this research is to increase community awareness about the relationship between physical activity, screen time, and nutrition and how these factors influence healthy weight management.

The problem of obesity is at epidemic proportions and has become the most important public health problem confronting the United States today. Of greatest concern is the 300% increase in obesity rates among children and youth over the past twenty years. Childhood obesity is a precursor of adult obesity.

Detailed description: The Switch™ Program is a unique community and family-based behavior change initiative that helps motivate children to change three critical health behaviors that are risk factors for childhood overweight and obesity. Through community education, family-based strategies and partnerships with schools, 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are encouraged to: Switch what you Do™ Switch what you View™ Switch what you Chew™.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All children in 3-5 grades who provide parental consent and child assent will be eligible to participate in the project.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants who meet the following exclusion criteria will not be considered for participation.
* Do not provide consent
* unable or unwilling to adhere to project procedures

Primary outcomes:
measure: Our outcome measure was reduction of screen time
timeFrame: 4 waves of data
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Our secondary outcome measure increase in fruit and vegetable consumption.
timeFrame: T1-PRE Intervention toT2 Post Intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Minneapolis
country: United States
facility: National Institute on Media and the Family
state: Minnesota
Study officials:
affiliation: National Institute on Media and the Family
name: Dave Walsh, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Eisenmann JC, Laurson KR, Wickel EE, Gentile D, Walsh D. Utility of pedometer step recommendations for predicting overweight in children. Int J Obes (Lond). 2007 Jul;31(7):1179-82. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803553. Epub 2007 Jan 30.
citation: Eisenmann JC, Gentile DA, Welk GJ, Callahan R, Strickland S, Walsh M, Walsh DA. SWITCH: rationale, design, and implementation of a community, school, and family-based intervention to modify behaviors related to childhood obesity. BMC Public Health. 2008 Jun 29;8:223. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-223.