NCT04265794Completed
A Cluster Randomized Trial of the H2GO! Program
Preventing Childhood Obesity Through Youth Empowerment: A Cluster Randomized Trial of the H2GO! Program
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 16 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This proposal involves a collaboration with the Massachusetts Alliance of Boys and Girls Clubs. The goal is to evaluate the efficacy of youth empowerment intervention targeting sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on childhood obesity among youth. The 12-session 6-week intervention consists of health and narrative sessions and youth-led activities. For this cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) at 10 sites, the investigators plan to recruit 45 parent-child pairs per site for a total of 450 parent-child pairs/dyads. The primary outcome is child participants' body mass index (BMI) z scores. Secondary outcomes include children's sugar-sweetened beverage intake, water intake, and youth empowerment. Change in outcomes over time among participants in the intervention sites will be compared to change in outcomes over time among participants
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 820 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Feb 2020
- Start date
- 22 Oct 2020
- Primary completion date
- 15 Jun 2025
- Lead sponsor
- Boston University
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT04265794
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 820
- From 22 Oct 2020 to the primary completion date, 15 Jun 2025
- 1 site 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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Criteria the registry did not label
- Child participant inclusion criteria
- Ages 9-12 years
- Current member at a BGC study site
- Able to understand and communicate in English
- Able and willing to provide assent
- Parental/caregiver permission to participate
- Child participant exclusion criteria - Has a medical condition that limits ability to change beverage consumption behaviors
- Parent participant inclusion criteria
- Parent or caregiver to a child member at a BGC study site
- 18 years or older
- able to understand and communicate in English
- able and willing to provide consent
- no plans to change their child's BGC membership over the next 12 months
- Parent participant exclusion criteria
- \- has a medical condition that limits ability to change beverage consumption behaviors
Age in the registry: 9 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston University School of Public Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boston | United States | Unknown status |
Related publications
- A Community-Based Behavioral Intervention and Body Mass Index in School-Aged Children: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Netw Open · 2026 · PMID 42853568
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