Quincy Family, Youth & Technology For Lifestyle Change (FYT-4-LIFE) Study
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Brief summary
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To date, approaches that show the most promise for preventing and/or reversing the course of childhood obesity involve the delivery of intensive lifestyle interventions within a family-based context, emphasizing the necessity of parental involvement and making changes in family routines and the home environment. Considering that the current demand for pediatric weight management programs far exceed availability, as well as the high attrition rates observed in such programs, there is a great need for more accessible and efficient means of delivering these interventions to reduce the burden of childhood obesity. The goal of this study is to understand whether text messaging and social media platforms can be leveraged to address the important issue of childhood obesity by engaging parent/guardians in one of these strategies, and whether these strategies produce similar outcomes. No existing study has compared these strategies head-to-head, and the investigators believe that this project will be instrumental in understanding the determinants of success in these strategies and allow us to collect sufficient intelligence to be able to deploy these meaningfully to patients as part of usual care.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT02324361
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 48 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Physical Activity Other
- Evidence-based information on healthy family routines Behavioral
Other · Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 3 Years to 7 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 30, 2014
- Primary completion
- Jan 31, 2015
- Completion
- Jan 31, 2015
- Last update posted
- Oct 21, 2020
2014 – 2015
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quincy Pediatric Associates | Quincy | Massachusetts | 02169 | — |
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