Can a Brief Primary Care Intervention Affect Healthy Weight Habits

• Sponsor: Vanderbilt University (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01533896
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 221
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 4
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 55.1

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Parents should receive anticipatory guidance about obesity prevention as part of the routine well child visit. Educational resources are needed to help physicians routinely provide these important anticipatory guidance messages. In this study, consecutive parents will be exposed to routine anticipatory guidance messages before the well child visit with the physician. After the clinic visit, parents will be invited to participate in a research study to determine if they plan any changes at home. The key research question of this study is: Can a brief multimedia intervention help parents develop plans to help their children have a healthy weight?

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Obesity	Behavioral: Grow Nicely	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 221 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Official Title: Can a Brief Primary Care Intervention Affect Healthy Weight Habits
• Study Start Date: Jun 1, 2010
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Oct 1, 2010
• Actual Study Completion Date: Oct 1, 2010

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: Control Parents and children in the control group received routine primary care during the well child visit.
Experimental: Grow Nicely Grow Nicely multimedia program.	Behavioral: Grow Nicely; Grow Nicely is a multimedia educational tool, developed at Vanderbilt University that teaches why and how to help children reach and maintain a healthy weight.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Changes in healthy weight habits [2 -4 weeks]

   At the time of the follow up phone call 2-4 weeks post-intervention, parents were asked: "Since the clinic visit have you made any changes to help your child either reach or maintain a healthy weight? " Yes "If yes, what changes have you made?"

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: N/A and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• English and Spanish speaking parents of 2-12 year old children presenting to the pediatric primary care clinic.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parent does not speak English or Spanish.

• Child presenting for an acute care visit.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Vanderbilt University Pediatric Primary Care Clinic	Nashville	Tennessee	United States	37232

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Vanderbilt University

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Additional Information:

• Grow Nicely website

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Seth Scholer, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01533896
• Other Study ID Numbers: grownicely
• First Posted: Feb 15, 2012
• Last Update Posted: Feb 15, 2012
• Last Verified: Feb 1, 2012

• Keywords provided by Seth Scholer, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University: Obesity prevention; Primary care; Education
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Obesity

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Feb 15, 2012