NCT07404839Recruiting
Scaling up Building Healthy Families
Scaling up Building Healthy Families in Rural Areas and Small Towns
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 10 Jun 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Evidence-based interventions for childhood obesity (EBI-CO) can improve children's weight status, but families in rural areas and small cities have limited access to the interdisciplinary healthcare teams recommended to deliver EBI-CO. To address this issue, the investigators adapted an EBI-CO, Building Healthy Families (BHF), which includes all materials and training resources necessary for rural program implementation. The pilot study found that when paired with opportunities to learn from the program developers and other community implementation teams, the packaged program led to effective delivery across 4 rural communities. This scale-up study will compare packaged BHF Resources with and without a learning collaborative facilitation strategy, examining outcomes including reach, effectiveness, implementation, and potential for sustainability in rural areas.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 150 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 4 Feb 2026
- Start date
- 1 Nov 2025
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jan 2030
- Lead sponsor
- University of Utah
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT07404839
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 150
- From 1 Nov 2025 to the primary completion date, 1 Jan 2030
- 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
- Communities must respond to a call for proposals by submitting a letter of intent and a brief narrative describing the local need for BHF and readiness for implementation. Community eligibility for this trial includes:
- Any community is eligible to apply for the competitive BHF RFA process;
- BHF RFA scoring prioritizes community narratives that meet the following criteria: (1)Childhood obesity prevention and treatment are a priority health concern; (2) Communities and community-based organizations located in rural, frontier, or micropolitan areas, and/or that provide services to families from these areas; (3) Communities and community-based organizations that provide services or reach families in other low-resource contexts, such as areas with limited access to evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention/treatment interventions.
- The community is willing to be randomized to either study condition.
- The community is willing to form a Community Implementation Team (CIT) to implement BHF.
- Eligibility for Community Implementation Teams (CIT) includes:
- Adults, age 18 years or older
- Employed by or affiliated with the community-based organizations that applied and were selected through the bundled adoption strategy (i.e., LOI/RFA) process.
- BHF Program Family Eligibility:
- Must have at least one child between the ages of 5 and 13 years with a BMI at or above the 85th percentile;
- One parent or caregiver must agree to attend BHF sessions with the child.
Age in the registry: 5 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Salt Lake City | United States | Recruiting |
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