Families on Track: A Digital Health Behavioral Intervention for Parents Seeking Treatment for Their Child With Obesity

Summary

Current models of outpatient childhood obesity treatment focus on the child's health habits, with limited efficacy. In part, this may be because childhood obesity is highly sensitive to parental lifestyle habits, who are often not a direct target of child obesity interventions. This study aims to target weight loss among overweight parents of 2-16 year old children with obesity enrolled in the Duke Healthy Lifestyles Program (HL) in order to augment child body mass index reduction. The intervention, " Families on Track" is a digital health intervention platform using the Interactive Obesity Treatment Approach (iOTA).

Conditions

• Obesity
• Childhood Obesity
• Hypertension
• Diabetes
• Dyslipidemia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Families on Track Intervention

Parents will receive the standard of care activities at the Healthy Lifestyles clinic at Duke University. They will also receive a modified version of the previously conducted Track intervention, a digital health weight loss intervention for adults in community health centers . The intervention will utilize the Interactive Obesity Treatment Approach (iOTA). iOTA uses a computer algorithm to assign 3 personalized behavioral goals known to create an energy deficit to produce weight loss (e.g., sugary drinks, fast food consumption walk 10,000 steps/day, etc). Participants will track these goals via interactive voice response (IVR) and text messaging technologies each week. They will receive immediate feedback based on self-monitoring data and skills training videos to learn how to make the behavioral changes necessary for weight loss. Intervention participants will also receive an analog bathroom scale and a pedometer to self-monitor daily weights and steps.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Duke University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Sarah Armstrong, MD · Duke University Health System, Duke Healthy Lifestyles

• Dori M Steinberg, PhD, RD · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

60 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-06-30

Primary Completion

2017-06-30

Completion

2017-06-29

Countries

• United States

Study Locations