Clinical trial NCT01881373: Children's Healthy Living Community Randomized Trial
Official title: Children's Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Obesity
Acanthosis Nigricans
Central Obesity
Keywords: Obesity
Child
Food
Physical Activity
Pacific
Lead sponsor: University of Hawaii
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Guam
name: Northern Marianas College
name: University of Alaska Fairbanks
name: American Samoa Community College
First posted: 2013-06-19
Enrollment: 9840
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 2
Maximum age (years): 8
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Community randomized intervention for child obesity prevention with multiple levels and components (policy, environment, messaging, and capacity)
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The goal is to build social/cultural, political/economic, and physical/built environments that will promote active play and intake of healthy food to prevent young child obesity in the Pacific Region. Our methods will support local culture in order to achieve this goal in these remote, underserved native populations. CHL will engage the community, and focus on capacity building and sustainable environmental change.

The focus of the CHL community-based program is to promote healthy eating and to increase physical activity. In order to demonstrate effectiveness, the investigators will recruit and measure children in six communities selected in each of our jurisdictions in the Pacific. These represent intervention communities, comparison communities, and temporal communities.

Detailed description: The specific objectives of our study are as follows.

Objective. Decrease the prevalence of young child overweight and obesity; and its functional outcomes (decrease acanthosis nigricans, and increase sleep; increase moderate to vigorous physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior (screen time); increase healthy eating (fruit and vegetable intake, water intake; decrease sweetened beverage intake), through community-based primary prevention environmental interventions in the Pacific region.

Objective. Measure 2-8-year-old children at baseline and 24 months in selected communities to track behaviors and anthropometry that indicate healthy eating, physical activity, and BMI.

Objective. Measure 2-8 year old children at 78 months in the selected communities to determine the long term effect of the CHL program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Community criteria

Four (4) to six (6) communities in each of five (5) jurisdictions (Alaska, American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam \& Hawai'i) chosen for community randomized program based on:

* 2000 U.S. Census criteria

  * \>1000 people
  * \>25% Native population,
  * \>10% under 5y
* CHL Staff Community Evaluation

  * Sufficient Head Start/preschool, kindergarten
  * Children live \& go to school in area
  * Separation between communities to allow testing
  * Access for CHL
  * Sufficient community cohesiveness
  * Sufficient settings for program (community centers, parks, stores...)
* Child criteria • 2-10 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

* Child criteria

  * Known orthopedic, psychological or neurologic impairments that prevent physical activity
  * Presence or history of any metabolic or chronic health problems known to affect intermediary metabolism (e.g. untreated thyroid disease, cancer, hepatic disease, renal disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension)
  * Irregular use of prescription or over-the-counter medications known to affect appetite, food intake or intermediary metabolism (e.g. appetite suppressants, lithium, antidepressants, etc.)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Using Body Mass Index Percentile for Age and Sex
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 months
measure: Change in Waist Circumference
timeFrame: Baseline, 78 months
measure: Prevalence of Acanthosis Nigricans
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 months
measure: Change in Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Using Body Mass Index Percentile for Age and Sex
timeFrame: Baseline, 78 months
measure: Change in Waist Circumference
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 months
measure: Prevalence of Acanthosis Nigricans
timeFrame: Baseline, 78 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 24 months
measure: Change in Mean of Moderate and Vigorous Activity Per Day in Minutes
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 months
measure: Change in Sedentary and Light Physical Activity
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 months
measure: Change in Screen Time
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 24 months
measure: Sleep Disturbance Score
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 24 months
measure: Change in Water Intake
timeFrame: Change from Baseline to 24 months
measure: Change in Fruit Intake
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 24 months
measure: Change in Vegetable Intake
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 24 months
measure: Change in Metabolic Equivalents (METs) Per Day
timeFrame: Baseline, 24 months
measure: Change in Hours of Sleep Per Day
timeFrame: change from baseline to 24 months
measure: Change in Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake
timeFrame: change from baseline to 78 months
measure: Change in Screen Time
timeFrame: change from Baseline to 78 months
measure: Sleep Disturbance Score
timeFrame: Change from baseline to 78 months, The children from each community recruited each time were NOT the same children. The number of communities is consistent across time.
measure: Change in Water Intake
timeFrame: change from baseline to 78 months.The children from each community recruited each time were NOT the same children. The number of communities is consistent across time.
measure: Change in Fruit Intake
timeFrame: change from baseline to 78 months
measure: Change in Vegetable Intake
timeFrame: change from baseline to 78 months
measure: Change in Hours of Sleep Per Day
timeFrame: change from baseline to 78 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Honolulu
country: United States
facility: University of Hawaii
state: Hawaii
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Hawaii
name: Rachel Novotny, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Fialkowski MK, DeBaryshe B, Bersamin A, Nigg C, Leon Guerrero R, Rojas G, Areta AA, Vargo A, Belyeu-Camacho T, Castro R, Luick B, Novotny R; CHL Team. A community engagement process identifies environmental priorities to prevent early childhood obesity: the Children's Healthy Living (CHL) program for remote underserved populations in the US Affiliated Pacific Islands, Hawaii and Alaska. Matern Child Health J. 2014 Dec;18(10):2261-74. doi: 10.1007/s10995-013-1353-3.
citation: Wilken LR, Novotny R, Fialkowski MK, Boushey CJ, Nigg C, Paulino Y, Leon Guerrero R, Bersamin A, Vargo D, Kim J, Deenik J. Children's Healthy Living (CHL) Program for remote underserved minority populations in the Pacific region: rationale and design of a community randomized trial to prevent early childhood obesity. BMC Public Health. 2013 Oct 9;13:944. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-944.
citation: Novotny R, Fialkowski MK, Areta AA, Bersamin A, Braun K, DeBaryshe B, Deenik J, Dunn M, Hollyer J, Kim J, Leon Guerrero RT, Nigg CR, Takahashi R, Wilkens LR. University of Hawai'i Cancer Center Connection: The Pacific Way to Child Wellness: The Children's Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations of the Pacific Region (CHL). Hawaii J Med Public Health. 2013 Nov;72(11):406-8. No abstract available.
citation: Braun KL, Nigg CR, Fialkowski MK, Butel J, Hollyer JR, Barber LR, Bersamin A, Coleman P, Teo-Martin U, Vargo AM, Novotny R. Using the ANGELO model to develop the children's healthy living program multilevel intervention to promote obesity preventing behaviors for young children in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Region. Child Obes. 2014 Dec;10(6):474-81. doi: 10.1089/chi.2014.0102.
citation: Novotny R, Fialkowski MK, Li F, Paulino Y, Vargo D, Jim R, Coleman P, Bersamin A, Nigg CR, Leon Guerrero RT, Deenik J, Kim JH, Wilkens LR. Systematic Review of Prevalence of Young Child Overweight and Obesity in the United States-Affiliated Pacific Region Compared With the 48 Contiguous States: The Children's Healthy Living Program. Am J Public Health. 2015 Jan;105(1):e22-e35. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302283.
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citation: Aflague TF, Leon Guerrero RT, Delormier T, Novotny R, Wilkens LR, Boushey CJ. Examining the Influence of Cultural Immersion on Willingness to Try Fruits and Vegetables among Children in Guam: The Traditions Pilot Study. Nutrients. 2019 Dec 20;12(1):18. doi: 10.3390/nu12010018.
citation: Yamanaka AB, Davis JD, Wilkens LR, Hurwitz EL, Fialkowski MK, Deenik J, Leon Guerrero RT, Novotny R. Determination of Child Waist Circumference Cut Points for Metabolic Risk Based on Acanthosis Nigricans, the Children's Healthy Living Program. Prev Chronic Dis. 2021 Jun 24;18:E64. doi: 10.5888/pcd18.210021.
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citation: Novotny R, Earle ME, Jung YO, Julian GJ, Hill E, Leon Guerrero RT, Coleman P, Deenik J, Boushey C, Wilkens LR. University of Hawai'i Cancer Center Connection: Pacific Tracker (PacTrac) Version 3.1 Diet and Physical Activity Assessment Tool for the Pacific Region. Hawaii J Health Soc Welf. 2021 Jul;80(7):165-168.
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