Tests a family program on healthy eating and produce deliveries for childhood obesity

AI summary

From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.

The trial is looking for children aged 4 to 10 years with a higher body weight for their age, together with an adult caregiver living in the home. Families must be patients at a Cherokee Health Systems clinic.

Age

Children 4 to 10 years old; the adult caregiver must be over 18 years.

Sex

All sexes can join.

Disease stage

Child BMI above the 85th percentile.

Main reasons for not taking part

• Not a patient at the CHS Knox County Pediatric Clinic
• Child not aged 4 to 10 years
• Child BMI at or below the 85th percentile
• Child without an adult caregiver over 18 years living in the household, or a caregiver not willing to take part
• Adult caregiver cannot read and speak English

The registry criteria, word for word

Check if you might fit

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• Are you between 4 and 10 years old?YesNo

What the trial wants to find out

Eating Better Together is a 6-month pilot program that teaches families about healthy eating and activity and provides home deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables from a local retail partner.

The group in the trial

• Prevention PlusTreatment being tested

  Child's energy balance behavioral goals will be to consume \< 3 sugar-sweetened beverages (e.g., regular carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks, lemonades, ice teas, flavored milk, juice drinks \< 100% juice, and punches) servings /wk, ≥1 1/2 cups/day of whole vegetables and ≥ 1 cup/day of whole fruit, engage in ≥ 60 minutes/day of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity, and reduce TV viewing to \< 2 hours/day. The caregiver's energy balance behavioral goals will be to consume \< 3 sugar-sweetened beverage servings/wk, ≥ 2 1/2 cups/day of whole vegetables and ≥ 1 1/2 cups/day of whole fruit, engage in ≥ 150 minutes of moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity per week and reduce TV viewing to \< 10 hours/wk.