PALS-CATCH Intervention for Obesity Prevention Among At-risk Toddlers



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Obesity Weight Loss
Therapuetic Areas:Endocrinology
Healthy:No
Age Range:Any
Updated:4/21/2016
Start Date:March 2016
Contact:Shreela Sharma, PhD, RD
Email:Shreela.v.sharma@uth.tmc.edu
Phone:713-500-9244

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Trial Summary
Trial Overview
Inclusion Criteria
The purpose of this study is to learn whether a combination of two research-proven programs,
a responsive caregiving parenting program and a childhood obesity prevention program, will
have an effect on toddlers' healthy nutrition and physical activity behaviors. Investigators
hypothesize that the children participating in the intervention will have significantly
lower BMI z-scores, lower intake of sugar sweetened beverages, and increased number of
servings of fruits and vegetables, and minutes of physical activity.


Inclusion Criteria:

- child is 2 - 3 years at the time of enrollment

- child is >85th percentile for BMI

- ability of the parents to speak and read in English at the 4th grade level

- provide primarily in-home care for the children at the time of enrollment

- child is Medicaid eligible

Exclusion Criteria:

- acute secondary complications of obesity for child (e.g., severe respiratory
insufficiency)

- child with endocrine abnormalities

- child with severe obesity (>99.5th BMI percentile)

- children who have participated in an obesity treatment program within the past year

- parent with significant sensory impairments (e.g. deaf, blind)

- parent with BMI >40.0
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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
7000 Fannin St
Houston, Texas 77030
(713) 500-4472
Phone: 713-500-9344
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