Status:
COMPLETED
Prevention of Childhood Obesity
Lead Sponsor:
Stanford University
Conditions:
Obesity
Eligibility:
All Genders
2-4 years
Brief Summary
This study is conducting preliminary testing to find out whether a particular educational program can alter parental overcontrol of their children's eating. There is evidence from previous studies tha...
Detailed Description
There are two main studies in this project. For both studies families with a child between 2 and 4-years will be entered to the study although only the parents will participate. At least one parent wi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- For study 1, 60 families (120 parents) with a child between the age of 2-4 years will be entered to the study. Children of these families will be at risk for overweight because the family will contain at least one obese parent. For study 2, 100 families (200 parents) will be entered to the study. Children of these families will be at risk for overweight and have a reactive temperament. The reason for using this population is that a combination of parental obesity and a child with a reactive temperament appears to put the child at high risk for the development of overweight.\

Exclusion
- Parental exclusions:
- Not able to comprehend English well enough to participate in assessments or the intervention.
- Serious non-obesity related physical illness, (e.g., cancer), which would preclude participation in assessment or intervention.
- Serious current psychiatric disorder, e.g. schizophrenia, uncontrolled bipolar disorder, mental retardation that would preclude participation in assessment or intervention.
- Single parents
- Child exclusions:
- Serious physical illness or related treatments that would affect feeding or weight including history of feeding aversion, failure to thrive, and use of nasogastric or gastrostomy feeding.
- Prematurity below 37-weeks associated with prolonged hospitalization, ongoing need for nutritional supplementation, or naso-gastric feeding.(parental report)
- Serious current developmental problems including any that might interfere with self-feeding or require additional parental feeding support e.g. developmental delay, autism. (parental report).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 2008
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
130 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00788203
Start Date
August 1 2008
End Date
May 1 2011
Last Update
July 25 2011
Active Locations (1)
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Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, United States, 94305