Healthy Families: Transforming Care for Obese Children at NYU Lutheran Family Health Centers

Summary

Childhood obesity is a contributing factor to health complications such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and asthma. It is of particular concern among Hispanic populations in the United States as that group has the fastest growing childhood obesity rate. Nearly two in five Hispanic children ages 2 to 19 are overweight or obese. This program aims to test whether it is beneficial to routinize a multi-disciplinary pediatric weight management program within the highest volume clinic (NYU-LFHC Women, Adolescents and Children), and to add a home-visit component to reinforce teaching on food selection and preparation. The intervention will include 27-hour intervention session which will be distributed into 12-session series over a 3 month period. The program will target Hispanic children between the ages of 9 and 11 with a Body Mass Index (BMI) between the 95th and 99th percentiles. To assess the effectiveness of this program, the investigators propose to conduct a general prospective study using randomized pre-test and post-test control group design with minimal risk for participants.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social Support

The social worker for the parent support group addresses culturally specific questions and adopts culturally acceptable strategies for setting limits and promoting healthy behaviors, engaging the group as a whole and building peer support.

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Session

Nutrition sessions will focus on how to make traditional Latin American foods healthier, including the sharing of recipes and learning what foods to buy in local supermarkets. Home visits by the nutritionist assists with family-centric strategies for healthier eating in their urban Latino households, including those with large extended families.

BEHAVIORAL

Physical Activity Session

45 minutes physical activity session to promote healthy behaviors

Sponsors & Collaborators

• NYU Langone Health

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Marisol Gonzalez, MD · NYU Lutheran

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

9 Years

Max Age

11 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-12-31

Primary Completion

2016-08-31

Completion

2016-08-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations