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NCT06520657Active, not recruiting

Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Child Obesity Treatment Using Community Health Workers

Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Child Obesity Treatment Using Community Health Workers: the Role of Parental Bandwidth in Treatment Effectiveness

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The goal of this small pilot study is to test the feasibility of combining a three-month intervention of working with a community health worker (CHW) to address social risk factors for patients prior to beginning a group weight management program for childhood obesity -- Promoting Health in Teens and Kids (PHIT Kids)

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
120 (estimated)
First submitted
2 Jul 2024
Start date
3 Jan 2025
Primary completion date
23 Jun 2026
Lead sponsor
Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Diseases
Obesity
NCT number
NCT06520657

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 120
  • From 3 Jan 2025 to the primary completion date, 23 Jun 2026
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Child on medications known to cause ongoing weight gain (e.g., atypical anti-psychotics, chronic prednisone, insulin)
  • Child on other medications know to affect weight if dose and BMI z-score has not been stable for 3 months.

Other illness

  • Diabetes or other disease that has a significant effect on diet, physical activity, or ability to take part in trial activities besides obesity (does not included treated or mild depression or anxiety, limited food allergies or mild physical activity limitations)
  • For parents: new MI, stroke or cancer diagnosis (excluding localized skin cancers) in past 6 months, history of bariatric surgery within the past 3 years, pregnancy in last 6 months or planned within 1 year

Other

  • Child or parent has significant developmental or cognitive impairments or other significant medical issue that would interfere with ability to participate or complete assessment
  • Parent or child has significant physical limitation
  • Parent/child planning to move to from Children's Mercy Kansas City (CMKC) service area

Who the study is looking for

  • Family must have one major social risk factor on the Protocol for Responding to \& Assessing Patients' Assets, Risks \& Experiences (PRAPARE) of the 14 modifiable risk factors
  • Child aged 8 through 12 years of age
  • Child with BMI% at 85th percentile or higher and less than the 120% of the 95th percentile (overweight or class 1 obesity)
  • Child must live with parent/guardian at least 5 out of the 7 days on average (70% of the time)
  • Child and parent able to speak English

Age in the registry: 8 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Children's Mercy Kansas City
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Kansas CityUnited StatesUnknown status

This page is information, not medical advice. Discuss any trial with your doctor.