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The Dose Trial: Dose Intensity of Behavioral Interventions for Childhood Obesity
Sponsor: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Summary
The research team is recruiting 900 children between the ages 5-17 with obesity from Tennessee and Louisiana. The team is assigning children and their caregivers by chance to one of five groups. In the first group, 300 children and their caregivers receive 26 hours of IBT. In the second group, 300 children and their caregivers receive 13 hours of IBT. The remaining three groups of 100 children and their caregivers receive 16, 19, or 22 hours of IBT. Children's healthcare providers, nutritionists, and social workers are providing IBT to each of the groups over six months. At the start of the study and again after one year, the research team is measuring the children's body mass index, or BMI. BMI is a measure of a person's body fat based on their height and weight. The team is also looking at the children's: * Diet * Exercise * Sleep * Media use * Quality of life
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
5 Years - 17 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
900
Start Date
2025-02-20
Completion Date
2028-08-01
Last Updated
2025-09-08
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Intensive Behavioral Lifestyle Modification
Participants in all arms will receive visits with their child's primary care provider (4 visits, 1 hour total), on-demand web-based learning modules that focus on building skills and knowledge in health behaviors (7 hours), and community resource counseling sessions delivered by a social worker or similar healthcare professional (4 sessions, 2 hours total). The difference between arms will be in the frequency and duration of personalized nutrition counseling delivered by a registered dietitian or similar healthcare professional: 16 sessions (60 minutes per session), 12 sessions (60 minutes per session), 9 sessions (60 minutes per session), 8 sessions (45 minutes per session), or 6 sessions (30 minutes per session).
Locations (2)
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States