Mass in Motion Kids in the Clinical Setting

Mass in Motion Kids is a whole-of-community intervention in Fitchburg and New Bedford,
Massachusetts that incorporates evidence-based interventions across multiple sectors and at
multiple levels. The overall goal of the study is to examine the extent to which the
comprehensive, systematic intervention reduces childhood obesity among underserved children.

The clinical intervention implements evidence-based interventions each city's
federally-qualified community health center. Intervention components aim to improve primary
and secondary prevention of childhood obesity and implement changes at four levels:
clinician; parent-family; organizational; and environmental. We additionally provide
training and educational materials to other pediatric clinicians in the two communities. The
clinical intervention components include (1) advanced training on clinical quality
improvement and obesity prevention, assessment, management; (2) computerized, point-of-care
decision support tools for clinicians; (3) implementation of multi-disciplinary weight
management programs within the community health centers, e.g. Healthy Weight Clinics (HWC);
(4) integrating community health workers into the primary care and HWC teams; and (5) health
center environmental changes to support behavior change modification.