Family Program for Weight Gain Prevention
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Obesity Weight Loss |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Endocrinology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 3 - 65 |
| Updated: | 4/21/2016 |
| Start Date: | July 2009 |
| End Date: | December 2012 |
The long-term goal of this project is to develop, evaluate, and disseminate to Extension
Service families across the state of Colorado, an engaging, interactive, and evidence-based
Family Program in order to prevent weight gain in adults and excess weight gain in children.
Excess weight gain in children is defined as an increase in body weight beyond the increase
in weight associated with normal growth and development. The program will focus on small,
easily adopted, sustainable, lifestyle changes.
Project Objectives include:
1. Enhancing a Family Program by including food and physical activity environmental
assessments, an online social network, and a pre-programmed health-based text messaging
system, and by gaining feedback from extension families through a series of 6 focus
groups.
2. Conducting a randomized trial to evaluate the impact of the enhanced Family Program on
the prevention of weight gain in families with overweight children. The investigators
hypothesize that excess weight gain will be prevented in subjects in the intervention
group, while those in the control group will gain excess weight.
3. Disseminating the Family Program through USDA Cooperative Extension Services in
Colorado and evaluate the usefulness/effectiveness of the program for USDA Extension
agents and participating families. The investigators will conduct 4 additional focus
groups at the end of this objective to gain feedback on its usefulness in a "real-life"
setting. This objective is different from objective 2 in that the investigators are
evaluating the program in a real-life setting, using qualitative and self-reported
data, rather than conducting a clinical trial.
By conducting focus groups with Extension families during both objectives #1 and 3, the
Family Program will help to improve knowledge regarding behavioral and environmental factors
influencing obesity. After enhancing the Family Program (Objective #1), the investigators
will test its effectiveness in a randomized study of 200 families (Objective #2). Finally,
after having developed and tested this effective intervention strategy, the investigators
will disseminate it through Extension Agents throughout the state to evaluate its usefulness
in a "real-life" setting (Objective #3).
Service families across the state of Colorado, an engaging, interactive, and evidence-based
Family Program in order to prevent weight gain in adults and excess weight gain in children.
Excess weight gain in children is defined as an increase in body weight beyond the increase
in weight associated with normal growth and development. The program will focus on small,
easily adopted, sustainable, lifestyle changes.
Project Objectives include:
1. Enhancing a Family Program by including food and physical activity environmental
assessments, an online social network, and a pre-programmed health-based text messaging
system, and by gaining feedback from extension families through a series of 6 focus
groups.
2. Conducting a randomized trial to evaluate the impact of the enhanced Family Program on
the prevention of weight gain in families with overweight children. The investigators
hypothesize that excess weight gain will be prevented in subjects in the intervention
group, while those in the control group will gain excess weight.
3. Disseminating the Family Program through USDA Cooperative Extension Services in
Colorado and evaluate the usefulness/effectiveness of the program for USDA Extension
agents and participating families. The investigators will conduct 4 additional focus
groups at the end of this objective to gain feedback on its usefulness in a "real-life"
setting. This objective is different from objective 2 in that the investigators are
evaluating the program in a real-life setting, using qualitative and self-reported
data, rather than conducting a clinical trial.
By conducting focus groups with Extension families during both objectives #1 and 3, the
Family Program will help to improve knowledge regarding behavioral and environmental factors
influencing obesity. After enhancing the Family Program (Objective #1), the investigators
will test its effectiveness in a randomized study of 200 families (Objective #2). Finally,
after having developed and tested this effective intervention strategy, the investigators
will disseminate it through Extension Agents throughout the state to evaluate its usefulness
in a "real-life" setting (Objective #3).
Inclusion Criteria:
- Families with at least one overweight child (8-12 years of age, BMI for age between
the 84.6th and 95.4th percentile)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Individuals with physical or medical limitations that prevent them from engaging in
physical activity. We will screen potential subjects and exclude subjects with an
underlying disease that would inhibit activity using the Physical Activity Readiness
Questionnaire (PAR-Q)
- Individuals using medication that influences body weight and appetite such as ADHD
medication (e.g. Ritalin) and medication for depression.
- Pregnant and lactating women because their patterns of physical activity and eating
may be different from their usual baseline. In the event a woman becomes pregnant
during the study her data will not be included in the final analyses.
- Adults or children who are weight unstable due to weight loss surgery, weight loss
medication, or dietary behavior.
- Families who do not have access to the internet at home or are not willing or able to
use public access computers e.g., libraries and schools.
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