Adolescents Committed to Nutrition and Physical Activity

Summary

Community based participatory research principles will be used to create, implement and evaluate a culturally relevant and age-appropriate obesity intervention for adolescents who are overweight or obese. The intervention will be implemented through school-based health centers (SBHC) and will include clinical encounters with SBHC providers, use of Motivational Enhancement Therapy to help overweight/obese adolescents adopt healthier behaviors, and use of a community advisory council to develop obesity risk reduction strategies that will be delivered by print and digital video disc (DVD) media. To test efficacy of the ACTION intervention, overweight/obese adolescents will be recruited to either the intervention condition or the usual care condition. Students will have pre- and post- intervention measurements to assess if adolescents in the intervention condition will have improved risk factor profile for metabolic syndrome, improved nutrition and increased physical activity when compared with students in the usual care condition.

Conditions

• Overweight
• Obesity
• Insulin Resistance

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ACTION

Overweight/obese adolescents enrolled in ACTION will meet with SBHC providers over a 6 month period in one school year. SBHC providers will use Motivational Enhancement Therapy to motivate overweight/obese adolescents to adopt strategies for improving nutrition and physical activity.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual care

Overweight/obese adolescents in the second arm will receive a well child check with usual anticipatory guidance.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  collaborator NIH

• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

  collaborator NIH

• University of New Mexico

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Alberta S Kong, MD, MPH · University of New Mexico

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

13 Years

Max Age

20 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-05-31

Primary Completion

2010-05-31

Completion

2012-10-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations