Enhancing BodyWorks: A Canine Health Literacy Module

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Dog ownership can serve as a vehicle for large-scale multi-level public health interventions, especially for pediatric overweight and obesity, due to dogs' unique place in children and adolescents' social networks.This study develops and tests a novel approach to design a Canine Health-Literacy module to enhance a Comprehensive Family Lifestyle Intervention BodyWorks, for dog-owning adolescents who have been diagnosed with overweight or obesity, and their parents. The results are anticipated to make an important step towards addressing the overweight and obesity epidemic among both people and companion dogs in the U.S.

What you commit to

• Study type: Interventional
• Participants enrolled: 202
• From 27 Feb 2021 to the primary completion date, 13 Jan 2025
• 1 site in 1 country
• Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who the study is looking for

Age in the registry: 9 years to 17 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

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