NCT07839832Recruiting
Stanford Healthy Goals Study
Wise Social Psychological Interventions to Improve Outcomes of Behavioral Weight Control in Children With Obesity
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Past modest, transient and highly variable outcomes from many behavioral treatments for pediatric obesity may be, in part, because of the psychological barriers children with obesity face when trying to control their weight. The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to test whether adding two innovative, brief, social psychological activities (termed "wise" interventions) to a high quality, family-based, group behavioral weight control program, will produce better outcomes among participating children with obesity. The primary hypothesis is that children who receive the family-based, group, behavioral weight control program plus the wise social psychological interventions will have significantly less body mass index growth over 12 months than children who receive the family-based, group, behavioral weight control program plus additional educational content. Participants will be asked to do participate in the six month treatment program and complete measurements at the beginning of the study, after 3 months, after 6 months (the end of the behavioral treatment program), and after 12 months (6 months after completing the behavioral treatment program). This study has the potential to substantially improve the outcomes of pediatric weight control treatments and significantly reduce concurrent and future health, psychological and social harms from childhood obesity.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 200 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 18 Sept 2026
- Start date
- Jan 2027
- Primary completion date
- Feb 2030
- Lead sponsor
- Stanford University
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT07839832
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 200
- From Jan 2027 to the primary completion date, Feb 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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Prior treatment
- Medications affecting growth
Other illness
- Medical conditions affecting growth
- Conditions limiting participation in the interventions
- Conditions limiting participation in the assessments
Other
- Unable to read, understand or complete informed consent in English or Spanish
- Other exclusion as deemed by the investigators
Who the study is looking for
- 10-15 year old children
- Obesity (BMI ≥ 95th percentile on the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BMI reference) on the date of randomization.
- Child and at least one parent/guardian must agree to participate
Age in the registry: 10 years to 15 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stanford | United States | Recruiting |
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