Status:
COMPLETED
Changing Eating Behaviors in Young Children: Should Healthy Foods be Increased or Unhealthy Foods Decreased?
Lead Sponsor:
The Miriam Hospital
Collaborating Sponsors:
American Diabetes Association
Conditions:
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
4-9 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Recommendations for treatment of childhood obesity in a primary care setting have been developed. These recommendations include beginning treatment with young children, focusing treatment on the paren...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Age between 4 and 9 years. We propose to use this age group since parents are in control of the eating and exercise choices of such children, and thus a program that focuses on parenting behaviors (i.e., positive reinforcement, stimulus control, parental modeling) should be developmentally appropriate. This age group also meets the Expert Committee's goal of intervening early5; moreover children aged 4 to 8 years have similar nutritional needs.
- Body mass index (BMI) \> 85th percentile BMI. Based upon the Expert Committee recommendations,5 children \> 2 years of age who are identified as being at risk for overweight (85th to 94th percentile BMI) or overweight (\> 95th percentile BMI) should focus on weight maintenance as height continues to increase. These recommendations are aimed at reducing z-BMI.
- Tanner stage 1 (prepubertal) sexual maturation status.
- Self-report at least one of the following problematic behaviors:
- Consume \< 2 servings per day of whole fruit (not juice) or \< 3 servings per day of vegetables.
- Consume \> 1 serving of sweetened drink per day.
- Consume \< 2 servings of low-fat milk per day.
- Consume \> 4 times per week of sweet or salty snack foods.
- A parent willing to attend treatment meetings.
- Parent and child speak English.
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Exclusion
- Report a family member participating in another weight loss program.
- Report that the child or parent planning to attend the treatment meetings has a major psychiatric disease or organic brain syndrome.
- Report that the child or parent planning to attend the treatment meetings has dietary or physical activity restrictions.
- Intend to move outside of the metropolitan area within the time frame of the investigation.
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Key Trial Info
Start Date :
July 1 2005
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
101 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00200265
Start Date
July 1 2005
End Date
December 1 2009
Last Update
April 20 2012
Active Locations (1)
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1
The Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center
Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903