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The Louisiana (LA) Health Project

NCT00289315 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2060

Last updated 2018-07-10

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Summary

There is a worldwide pandemic of obesity with far-reaching consequences for the health of our nation. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Prevention of obesity, especially in children, has been deemed by public health policy makers to be one of the most important objectives for our country.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Primary (Environmental) Weight Gain Prevention

School-based program that modifies the school environment to promote healthy eating and physical activity

BEHAVIORAL

Secondary (Behavioral) Weight Gain Prevention

School-based environmental program to promote healthy eating and physical activity in the overweight students.

BEHAVIORAL

Control

Control program that does not include an active intervention for promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

    collaborator FED

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Pennington Biomedical Research Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-08-31
Primary Completion
2009-05-31
Completion
2009-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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