Obesity
Conditions
Keywords
Obesity prevention, Primary care, Education
Brief summary
Parents should receive anticipatory guidance about obesity prevention as part of the routine well child visit. Educational resources are needed to help physicians routinely provide these important anticipatory guidance messages. In this study, consecutive parents will be exposed to routine anticipatory guidance messages before the well child visit with the physician. After the clinic visit, parents will be invited to participate in a research study to determine if they plan any changes at home. The key research question of this study is: Can a brief multimedia intervention help parents develop plans to help their children have a healthy weight?
Interventions
BEHAVIORALGrow Nicely
Grow Nicely is a multimedia educational tool, developed at Vanderbilt University that teaches why and how to help children reach and maintain a healthy weight.
Sponsors
Vanderbilt University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* English and Spanish speaking parents of 2-12 year old children presenting to the pediatric primary care clinic.
Exclusion criteria
* Parent does not speak English or Spanish. * Child presenting for an acute care visit.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Changes in healthy weight habits | 2 -4 weeks | At the time of the follow up phone call 2-4 weeks post-intervention, parents were asked: Since the clinic visit have you made any changes to help your child either reach or maintain a healthy weight? * Yes If yes, what changes have you made? |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed