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The Colorado LEAP Study: A Socioecological Approach to Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood

NCT01937481 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 230

Last updated 2018-07-24

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Summary

The Colorado Longitudinal Eating And Physical activity (LEAP) Study utilizes a social ecological approach to explore individual, family and environmental factors and their relationship to child weight status over a 3 year timeframe. Our primary research questions are as follows:

1. Are behavior changes (increased willingness to try new foods and gross motor skills) from a preschool nutrition and activity program, The Food Friends®, sustained through early elementary school?
2. Do The Food Friends® programs have an impact on reducing the percentage of children considered overweight and/or obese over a 3 year timeframe?
3. Do food preference and gross motor performance directly affect child weight status or are they mediators to dietary intake and physical activity?

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The Food Friends

The Food Friends is a research-based preschool program designed to address childhood obesity by establishing healthful eating and physical activity behaviors in preschool-aged children. The Food Friends: Fun With New Foods (12 weeks) focuses on helping children increasing children's willingness to try new foods and The Food Friends: Get Movin' With Mighty Moves (18 weeks) aims to enhance preschoolers' gross motor skill development. In effort to sustain the preschool behavior changes, the messages from The Food Friends® (Super Taster and Mighty Mover) will be extended into early elementary school through a 'booster' program. The booster program will consist of a kindergarten and 1st grade curriculum with 5 monthly units.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

    collaborator FED

  • University of Colorado, Denver

    collaborator OTHER

  • Colorado State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura L Bellows · Colorado State University

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-07-31
Completion
2017-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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