Clinical trial NCT04719442: Packaging Building Healthy Families for Community Implementation
Official title: Translating Efficacious Pediatric Weight Management Interventions Into Rural & Micropolitan Communities
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pediatric Obesity
Keywords: Obesity
Type III Hybrid Effectiveness Implementation
Rural
Lead sponsor: University of Nebraska
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
First posted: 2021-01-22
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: There is a large body of literature regarding efficacious intervention strategies for treating childhood obesity. Unfortunately, the degree to which efficacious programs have been packaged for translation in micropolitan and surrounding rural areas is unclear-an important issue when considering the prevalence of obesity is higher in rural areas when compared to urban areas. Epstein's Traffic Light Diet (TLD) is likely the most studied pediatric weight management intervention (PWMI) and has demonstrated efficacy across a wide range of randomized controlled trials in children 6-12 years of age. Building Healthy Families (BHF) is an adaptation of the TLD and has been implemented in a micropolitan city and achieved clinically and statistically significant reductions in child BMI z-score (-0.27±0.22)-a similar magnitude of effect relative to previous efficacy trials. The investigators have created online resources for organizations interested in delivering PWMIs, training modules for related interventions, and participant-facing program materials that could be combined into a 'turn-key' approach for communities interested in reducing childhood obesity to adopt, adapt and sustain it in other micropolitan/rural communities. The primary aim is to collaboratively refine and develop an intervention package for the BHF that includes materials necessary for others to implement the intervention in new metropolitan/rural locations. The second aim is to perform a rigorous, mixed-methods pilot implementation study using an innovative community application process to identify 4 to 8 new communities to pilot test the utility of the packaged PWMI and training materials while determining factors that predict adoption, implementation and sustainability. The investigators will also use a learning collaborative implementation strategy to improve implementation fidelity and local context and facilitation capacity in communities interested in delivering BHF. The third aim is to use the pilot evaluation data and results of the sustainability action plan to refine program and training materials and develop a dissemination plan to move the program to other communities. The approach will use an implementation research explanatory process and outcome model to test hypotheses related to implementation and sustainability, engaging community/ clinical partners in the implementation and sustainability process, and evaluate outcomes at both the individual and organizational level.

Detailed description: Since the early 1980s, a number of efficacious pediatric weight management interventions (PWMI) have been developed to reduce child weight status. Epstein's Traffic Light Diet (TLD) is likely the most studied PWMI and has demonstrated efficacy across a wide range of randomized controlled trials in children up to and older than 12 years of age. This work and the majority of efficacious PWMI have been based in large urban areas delivered through a hospital or medical center and the most recent childhood obesity treatment recommendations do not address geographically underserved audiences or settings where all members of an interdisciplinary team may not exist. As a result, there is no information on the degree to which evidence-based PWMIs have been translated into micropolitan (cities\<50,000) and rural settings. This is an important issue when considering the prevalence of obesity is higher, socioeconomic status and access to preventive healthcare is lower, and 20% of the nation's populations reside in rural areas based on the most recent census data. A related issue is the potential mismatch between the resources and expertise used to deliver research and hospital-based PWMIs in urban, when compared to micropolitan and rural, areas. Thus, adoption, implementation, and sustainability may be limited in micropolitan and surrounding rural areas unless adaptations are made that leverage multiple systems within the community that interact with families and children and strategies include a balanced focus on reach and effectiveness to increase the likelihood of having a public health impact. To address these issues the research team has implemented an adapted version of the TLD in Kearney, Nebraska, developed and used training approaches for PWMI for underserved micropolitan settings, and conducted a number of implementation trials focused on planning for, and evaluating, PWMI reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance (RE-AIM). This includes research examining models of participant identification and engagement within settings where a large proportion of children are screened for obesity-schools and primary care pediatric clinics. Building Healthy Families (BHF), the investigators' TLD adaptation, includes the required or more contact hours through regular and frequent in-person contact with families and leverages the expertise and time of health professionals from a variety of local organizations. BHF has been implemented locally and successfully achieved clinically and statistically significant reductions in child BMI z-score (-0.27±0.22). Through collaborative efforts the research team has developed online resources for organizations interested in delivering PWMIs, training modules for related interventions, and participant-facing program materials that could be combined into a 'turn-key' approach for communities interested in reducing childhood obesity. The investigators preliminary work demonstrates that the adapted TLD intervention can achieve a similar magnitude of effect relative to previous efficacy trials, that the associated training materials and approaches can result in a high level of implementation fidelity, and that ongoing program adaptations to address local needs can be made. To date, the research team has not combined all of these approaches and materials as a turn-key package that could be adopted, adapted, and sustained in other micropolitan/rural communities.

The first aim is to collaboratively refine and develop an intervention package for the TLD that includes all of the materials necessary for others to implement the intervention in new micropolitan and rural locations. The second aim is to perform a rigorous, mixed-methods pilot implementation research study using an innovative community application process to identify 4 to 8 new communities to pilot test the utility of the packaged PWMI and training materials when coupled with a learning collaborative facilitation strategy and sustainability action planning process in supporting PWMI adoption, implementation, and sustainability when compared to receiving access to the packaged program and training materials alone. Additional outcomes will include start-up and ongoing costs while tracking intervention reach, representativeness, and effectiveness in reducing and maintaining child weight status relative to a matched cohort. The third aim is to use the pilot evaluation data and results of the sustainability action plan to refine program and training materials and develop a dissemination plan to move the program to other communities.

To complete these aims the investigators will engage an existing partnerships that includes local schools and pediatricians in Kearney, NE and the Great Plains IDeA Clinical and Translational Research Network Community Advisory Board who has identified childhood obesity treatment, particularly in rural areas, across North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska as a priority. As is recommended, the approach will use an implementation research explanatory process, and outcome model to test hypotheses related to implementation and sustainability, engaging community/clinical partners in the implementation and sustainability process, and evaluate outcomes at both the individual and organizational level. Specifically, the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) Framework will be used as the explanatory model and the RE-AIM framework to track individual reach, representativeness, effectiveness and organizational cost, adoption, implementation, and sustainability.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child 6 to 12 years of age
* Child with BMI percentile at or above the 95th percentile
* parents and/or guardian of child who meets the inclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

* Child with major cognitive or physical impairments
* Child or parents/guardians with a contraindication for physical activity
* Families participating in a concurrent pediatric weight management intervention

Primary outcomes:
measure: Program Implementation
timeFrame: up to 12 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Body Mass Index percentile ranking
timeFrame: Calculated four times, baseline, 3-months, 6-months and 12 months
measure: Reach
timeFrame: measured once at enrollment
measure: Height in Meters
timeFrame: Measured once at baseline
measure: Weight in Kilograms
timeFrame: Measured 4 times; baseline, 3 months, 6-months and 12 months.
measure: Body Mass Index
timeFrame: Calculated 4 times; baseline, 3-months, 6-months and 12 months
measure: Community Adoption
timeFrame: 1 time at 3 months
measure: Cohort Adoption
timeFrame: up to 24 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Cost
timeFrame: up to 24 months
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Nebraska
name: Jennie Hill, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Nebraska at Kearney
name: Kate Heelan, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Michaud TL, Hill JL, Heelan KA, Bartee RT, Abbey BM, Malmkar A, Masker J, Golden C, Porter G, Glasgow RE, Estabrooks PA. Understanding implementation costs of a pediatric weight management intervention: an economic evaluation protocol. Implement Sci Commun. 2022 Apr 5;3(1):37. doi: 10.1186/s43058-022-00287-1.
citation: Hill JL, Heelan KA, Bartee RT, Wichman C, Michaud T, Abbey BM, Porter G, Golden C, Estabrooks PA. A Type III Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Pilot Trial Testing Dissemination and Implementation Strategies for a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention: The Nebraska Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Project. Child Obes. 2021 Sep;17(S1):S70-S78. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0170.