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Growing Right Onto Wellness (GROW): Changing Early Childhood Body Mass Index (BMI) Trajectories

NCT01316653 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 610

Last updated 2021-10-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to conduct a randomized controlled trial that examines how a family based, community centered intervention effects early childhood BMI trajectories.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity
  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

GROW Healthier

Group sessions that meet once weekly for 3 months (intensive phase) with choice of phone call session as preferred by participant, phone call coaching monthly for 9 months (maintenance phase), and monthly cues to action to use one's built environment for healthy activities for 24 months (sustainability phase)

BEHAVIORAL

GROW Smarter

Group sessions that meet six times over the course of three years with quarterly newsletters.

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

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

    collaborator NIH

  • Nashville Metro Parks and Recreation Department

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Nashville Public Library Foundation

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Vanderbilt University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS · Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2017-06-13
Completion
2017-07-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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