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iAmHealthy Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG)
Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center
Summary
The current study is a multilevel factorial design RCT with interventions at the clinic (Healthy Clinic intervention period vs. Control period) and individual patient levels (iAmHealthy vs. Newsletter).
Official title: Implementation of the New Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline in Rural Families and Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
6 Years - 11 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
1024
Start Date
2025-09-06
Completion Date
2028-11
Last Updated
2025-12-22
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Participants: iAmHealthy
Families will take part in an educational group program with parents and their children. These one-hour meetings will be focused on living healthy lifestyles and engaging in healthy habits as a family and will occur weekly for three months and monthly for three months. Each family will also have the opportunity to receive individual health coaching sessions every other week that will last approximately 30 minutes to address concerns and health behaviors specific to each pair. There will be additional opportunities to demonstrate and apply learned concepts.
Participants: Newsletter
Families assigned to the newsletter control intervention will receive the AAP Healthy Children Newsletter (HealthyChildren.org) every month for six months.
Clinics: Healthy Clinics
Healthy Clinics is a clinic level intervention designed to improve provider office processes using a bundled intervention of provider prompts, skills training and intervention tools implemented with performance feedback. Each clinic receives Healthy Clinics at some point in the intervention.
Locations (4)
University of Kansas Medical Center
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina, United States