Managing Patient Expectations in Pediatric Weight Management

Summary

As part of Children's Hospital Association's Focus on a Fitter Future III Obesity Task Force, this project will target patient and family expectations across the domains of nutrition, physical activity and behavior change/family support as a means of patient engagement and retention in pediatric weight management. This will be a prospective, non-randomized, uncontrolled, single-arm trial for children between 2 and 18 years of age and a parent/guardian, who are starting a pediatric weight management program/clinic in one of the participating centers. The parent/guardian and child if 12 years of age or older receive a survey at the first visit, which asks about their expectations and goals for the visit. This information will then be used as part of clinical care to tailor treatment. After 3 months, the parent/guardian and adolescent, if applicable, will receive a follow up survey asking about their progress in these areas.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Patient Expectations

3 month follow up survey (parent/guardian and adolescents 12 and older)

BEHAVIORAL

Patient Expectations

Baseline Expectations survey (parent/guardian and adolescents 12 and older)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Nebraska

  collaborator OTHER

• Nationwide Children's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Connecticut Children's Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• C.S. Mott Children's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital Colorado

  collaborator OTHER

• Children's Hospital of Illinois

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Helen DeVos Children's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Norton Healthcare

  collaborator OTHER

• Boston Children's Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Erinn Rhodes, MD, MPH · Boston Children's Hospital

• Sarah Hampl, MD · Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

2 Years

Max Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2013-01-31

Primary Completion

2013-12-31

Completion

2013-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations