Healthy Kids I-PAL

Pennington Biomedical Research Center10 enrolled

Overview

Up to 30 parent/child dyads will be recruited to participate in an m-Health intervention (delivered over smartphone, iPad/Tablet, or desktop/laptop) to promote healthy behaviors and healthy weight among children and their parents.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Childhood Obesity

Interventions

m-health approachBEHAVIORAL

Parent/child dyads attend remote counseling sessions delivered over Internet-connected device (e.g. smartphone, iPad/tablet, laptop, or desktop computer). A counselor will deliver the lesson, review progress based on the objectively measured data, and provide individualized advice and problem-solving strategies for parent and child. Families will receive weekly contact via smartphone. Each lesson will include an interactive component for parent and child related to healthy eating and active play, as well as an interactive parenting training component. Lessons are based on the family treatment methods that effectively promote child and parent weight loss that is sustained for 10 years (Epstein et al., 1990; Epstein et al., 1981). Anthropometric and demographic data collected on children in the dyad only.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 5 YearsMax age: 14 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria for Child: * Have at least one participating parent * Be physically capable of exercise * Be free of diseases that affect metabolism, body weight, and food intake, including type 1 or type 2 diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and cancer Inclusion Criteria for Parent: * Have a smart phone * Be willing to use the smartphone for the mHealth intervention Exclusion Criteria for Child: * Significant cardiovascular disease or disorders via self-report from parent * Other significant medical problems that would prevent them from engaging in regular physical activity.

Locations (1)

Southeastern Louisiana University

Hammond, Louisiana, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Child Acceptability of the mHealth Approach

Children completed an acceptability survey at the end of the intervention that included Likert scales on intervention satisfaction. The items were average to calculate an average acceptability score. The scale range for the average total score is 1 to 5. A higher score indicates higher acceptability.

Time frame: 13 Weeks

Secondary Outcomes

BMI Z-score Change

Objectively measured height and weight were compared against the normative values for age (months) and sex according to the CDC growth charts. A z-score is assigned, with 0 representing the population mean. A positive z-score indicates a BMI above the population mean (higher relative weight), whereas a negative z-score is below the population mean (lower relative weight). For the change score, the post BMI z-score measured at week 14-16 was subtracted from the baseline BMI z-score. For the change score, a positive value indicates an increase in relative weight, whereas a negative value indicates a reduction in relative weight.

Time frame: Week 0 to Week 14-16

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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