Status:

ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING

Black Girls Move Physical Activity and Improving Dietary Intake Among Black Adolescent Daughters

Lead Sponsor:

Rush University Medical Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

University of Illinois at Chicago

Conditions:

Adolescent Obesity

Diabetes Mellitus

Eligibility:

FEMALE

12-18 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Black Girls Move is a school-linked daughter/mother physical activity and dietary behavior program, with 9th and 10th grade students. This program is designed to prevent obesity in Black adolescent fe...

Detailed Description

Black female adolescents are at increased risk for obesity-related morbidity and mortality as adults compared to non-Hispanic White female adolescents. Interventions to prevent obesity in Black female...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion Criteria for daughters are:
  • English speaking;
  • Black;
  • grade 9 or 10;
  • daily access to the internet outside of school and/or work through an iOS or android smart phone, tablet, or personal computer;
  • either high-normal weight (between ≥50th and \<85th percentile for age and gender) or overweight (between ≥85th and \<95th percentile for age and gender) as the purpose of this study is weight maintenance and obesity prevention in at-risk daughters rather than obesity treatment; 98 and
  • have either a poor diet, (defined as consuming \<1 vegetable or \<1 fruit per day) 99 or inadequate PA (defined as \< 60 minutes per day, 7 days per week). 99,100
  • Inclusion criteria for mothers are:
  • English-speaking;
  • Black;
  • co-residing biological mother or mother-figure and legal guardian of the participating daughter;
  • the person primarily responsible for meals in the household; and
  • access to the internet through an iOS or android smart phone, tablet or personal computer. In a longitudinal study of 480 adults, 84% of adults with obesity were adolescents with high normal weight status (≥50th and \<85th percentile). National data on cell phone ownership show that 81% of Black students and 68% of Black parents own a smart phone
  • Exclusion Criteria:
  • The exclusion criteria for both daughters and mothers includes:
  • having conditions/procedures that prevent the oral consumption of foods (e.g., gastric feeding tubes);
  • presence of physical limitations that would preclude participation in the PA activity components of the intervention;
  • altered dietary intake (e.g., pregnancy, eating or metabolic disorders except for type 1 or type 2 diabetes); and
  • at baseline physical assessment, participants screened for uncontrolled blood pressure (systolic \> 130, diastolic \>80 for daughters; and systolic \>160, diastolic \>100 for mothers) will be eligible only with a healthcare provider release.
  • participants with diagnosed type 1 or 2 diabetes will be eligible for participation only with a healthcare provider release.
  • mothers will be screened for cardiovascular disease and musculoskeletal risk factors with the 7-item Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire. Mothers that answer 'yes' to any item on the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire will be eligible only with a healthcare provider release. Daughters or mothers who are asked to provide healthcare provider release will be referred to the Chicago Department of Public Health if they do not have a primary care provider. To be eligible to participate in either condition, both the daughter and her mother must be willing and eligible to participate in the study.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    March 6 2023

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    November 30 2025

    Estimated Enrollment :

    120 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT05433415

    Start Date

    March 6 2023

    End Date

    November 30 2025

    Last Update

    May 20 2025

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    Rush University Medical Center

    Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612