Actively Recruiting
Evaluation of Child Care Staff Weight Management Program
Led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center · Updated on 2026-03-23
924
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
223 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
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UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lead Sponsor
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of this 12-month cluster clinical trial is to evaluate if improving child care providers' health behaviors using an online provider weight management program elicits meaningful change in dietary and physical activity behaviors in 2-5-year-old preschool children in their care and the child care environment. The study sample will include 84 child care centers. Including: 84 center directors, 168 2-5-year-old classroom teachers, 672 2-5-year old children. Some centers will do only the online Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (Go NAPSACC) program. This program works with child care center directors to make changes to their center around child nutrition and physical activity to foster healthier habits for the children enrolled in their care. Other centers will do Go NAPSACC Enhanced. This will include center directors doing Go NAPSACC and 2-5 year old teachers doing an online weight management program with support. Researchers will compare centers in Go NAPSACC with centers in Go NAPSACC Enhanced to see if there are greater improvements in children's diet quality and physical activity, as well as the nutrition and physical activity environment of centers in the Go NAPSACC Enhanced group. Additionally, they will see if there are greater improvements in teachers' weight, diet quality, and physical activity in centers using Go NAPSACC Enhanced.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Evaluation of Child Care Staff Weight Management Program
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Child care centers must be open year-round
- Child care centers must be licensed with no plans to close in the next 2 years
- Child care centers must have been operating for at least 1 year
- Child care centers must have at least two classrooms serving children aged 2 to 5 years
- Child care centers must serve at least lunch to the 2-5-year-old children
- Child care centers must not have participated in Go NAPSACC in the past 6 months
- Two classroom providers aged 2 to 5 years and 4 parents from each classroom must consent to participate
- Child care providers (directors and teachers) must be able to provide informed consent
- Child care providers must be aged 18 years or older
- Teachers must work in a 2-5-year-old classroom
- Teachers must not be pregnant or planning pregnancy in the next year
- Children must be in a classroom with a participating teacher
- Children must be aged 2 to 5 years
- The consenting primary caregiver must be able to read English
You will not qualify if you...
- Child care centers that serve only non-English speaking families
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7426
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
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Regan V Burney, PhD
CONTACT
E
Erik Willis, PhD
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
DOUBLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
PREVENTION
Number of Arms
2
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