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School Nurse-directed Secondary Obesity Prevention for Elementary School Children

NCT02029976 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2020-07-23

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Summary

Primary Aim: To test the efficacy of an elementary school-based, school nurse-led weight management program to reduce excess weight gain among children, 8 to 12 years old who are overweight and at risk of overweight by increasing healthy dietary practices and physical activity levels and decreasing sedentary practices.

Primary Hypothesis: Relative to the control condition, the children receiving the intervention will have a significantly lower body mass index (BMI), following implementation of the 9-month intervention, controlling for baseline values.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

SNAPSHOT (Student, Nurses and Parents Seeking Healthy Options Together)

attention control condition after school weight management program

BEHAVIORAL

Mailed monthly newsletters

Newsletters

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

    collaborator NIH

  • Temple University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Martha Kubik, PhD · Temple University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
8 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2019-08-31
Completion
2019-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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