NCT03843424Completed
Treatment Efforts Addressing Child Weight Management by Unifying Patients, Parents & Providers
A Pragmatic Family-Centered Approach to Childhood Obesity Treatment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 1 Oct 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that providers screen children aged 6 years and older for obesity and offer or refer them to a comprehensive behavioral intervention (≥26 hours over a period of up to 12 months) to promote improvement in weight status. Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is an effective treatment that targets both child and parents and meets the USPSTF recommendations. By contrast, the American Medical Association (AMA) recommends a staged approach to childhood obesity screening and counseling, which begins with prevention counseling by the primary care provider (PCP) and includes assessment of weight status, patient/family motivation and readiness to change, promotion of healthy eating and activity habits, and use of health behavior change strategies. Our study compares a staged approach enhanced standard of care (eSOC) vs. eSOC + FBT, to provide families and PCPs with information on the best intervention approach for the behavioral treatment of childhood obesity. Our project seeks to fill the gap in the evidence on family-based weight management in primary care settings among diverse and underserved populations with a special focus on Black children, families insured by Medicaid, and sex differences.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1460 (actual)
- First submitted
- 14 Feb 2019
- Start date
- 12 Sept 2019
- Primary completion date
- 26 Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT03843424
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 1460
- From 12 Sept 2019 to the primary completion date, 26 Jun 2024
- 7 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- children with chronic conditions or on medications that substantially impact or interfere with growth, appetite, weight, or physical activity participation;
- families in whom the parent or child exhibits eating disorder symptomatology.
Other
- families who plan to no longer have the child be a patient of any participating clinic/practice during any point in the 18-month study period;
- families for whom the Primary Care Provider (PCP) or site PI thinks the intervention is clinically/medically inappropriate (e.g., developmental delay, or emotional or cognitive difficulties, if the PI/PCP believes these factors will interfere with study/intervention participation); and
Who the study is looking for
- have a BMI percentile ≥95th for age and sex;
- comfortable speaking English language;
- able to provide written or verbal (based on age) informed assent;
- willing to change diet, physical activity, and/or weight;
- patient of a participating clinic/practice; and
- able to participate in scheduled sessions.
- comfortable speaking and reading English language.
Age in the registry: 6 years to 15 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (7)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Alton | United States | Unknown status |
| Pennington Biomedical Research Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baton Rouge | United States | Unknown status |
| Washington University School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cape Girardeau | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Missouri School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Columbia | United States | Unknown status |
| Pennington Biomedical Research Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Orleans | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Rochester Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Rochester | United States | Unknown status |
| Washington University School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Louis | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Family-Centered Child Obesity Treatment: The TEAM UP Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Pediatr · 2026 · PMID 42507462
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