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Happy Family, Healthy Kids Program for Childhood Obesity

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Research Sponsored by Michigan State University

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be younger than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up change from baseline parental food resource management and food safety at 15 weeks

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test a 14-week program aimed at reducing emotional eating in parents, in order to establish healthier eating habits in their children.

Eligible Conditions

Childhood Obesity
Healthy Eating
Stress
Intergenerational Relations

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ change from baseline proportion of overweight and obesity and body mass index z-score at 15 weeks

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~change from baseline proportion of overweight and obesity and body mass index z-score at 15 weeks

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and change from baseline proportion of overweight and obesity and body mass index z-score at 15 weeks for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Child dietary intake

Secondary outcome measures

Child eating style

Child proportion of overweight and obesity and body mass index z-score

Hair cortisol concentration

+1 more

Other outcome measures

Food security status

Home eating environment

Parent fruit/vegetable/fiber intake

+9 more

Trial Design

1Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Group I: ProgramExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

The 14-week healthy eating program activities including four components: A 14-week parent Facebook-based program focusing on stress management and healthy eating to reduce emotional eating and increase parents' capacity to initiate healthy eating practices at home Three parent face-to-face or virtual meetings at Head Start centers to connect parents with each other in person, offer healthy cooking tools/classes, and discuss behavioral change strategies and challenges 14-week child "Eat My ABCs" program at Head Start centers to provide an age-appropriate, healthy eating program to children Weekly child letter to parents to connect child learning at the Head Start center with parental practices at home

Treatment

First Studied

Drug Approval Stage

How many patients have taken this drug

Happy Family, Healthy Kids Program

2021

N/A

~110

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Michigan State UniversityLead Sponsor

184 Previous Clinical Trials

601,300 Total Patients Enrolled

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Is this study open to participants who are under the age of 25?

"According to the eligibility requirements, patients aged 3 to 5 can enroll in this trial. Out of the 175 studies for people under the age of 18, this is one of 164 for people over 65."

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Would I be able to help with this research by enrolling in the study?

"This trial is enrolling 320 patients, between the ages of 3 and 5 who have pediatric obesity. It is important that participants also meet the following criteria: Be enrolled in the full-day or part-day Head Start program., Provide consent., Be the primary adult caregiver (≥ 18 years old) for the preschooler. Primary caregiver refers to the one person most responsible for providing care to the preschooler on a daily basis., There are ten inclusion criteria (five for preschoolers and five for caregivers)., Have parental consent., Have child assent if the child is 5 years old., Be 3-5 years"

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Are new participants still being sought for this experiment?

"That is correct. The clinical trial, which began recruiting on 2021-08-20, is currently looking for 320 patients from 1 locations, as indicated by the information on clinicaltrials.gov."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Happy Family, Healthy Kids Program

Jiying Ling 2021. "Happy Family, Healthy Kids Program". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04183179.