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Nutrition Study for School Age Children

NCT00620152 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2010-08-24

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Summary

In this study, we evaluate whether dietary advice based on two healthy nutritional programs can be effectively delivered to families over one month by telephone. We hypothesize that among overweight school age children, a one-month telephone intervention will result in specific dietary changes consistent with the randomly assigned dietary intervention.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

1

Low glycemic load diet by telephone counseling

BEHAVIORAL

2

Low fat diet by telephone counseling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Boston University

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • Boston Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erinn Rhodes, MD · Boston Children's Hospital

  • David S Ludwig, MD · Boston Children's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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