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Intervention INC: Interactive Nutrition Comics for Urban Minority Youth

NCT03165474 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 178

Last updated 2018-08-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility and participant acceptability of an interactive, internet/mobile-enabled dietary self management intervention. The secondary purpose of this study is to determine if the intervention improves knowledge, attitudes and food preferences associated with the targeted behaviors, to reduce childhood obesity risk from baseline to post-test.

Conditions

  • Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

OTHER

Web-based comic and newsletters

Web-based comic and health messages (child component) and health newsletters (parent component)

OTHER

Didactic health information

Didactic health information and resources by email and/or text

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Children's Aid

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Weill Medical College of Cornell University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hunter College of City University of New York

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • May May Leung, PhD, RDN · Hunter College of City University of New York

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-08-11
Primary Completion
2018-04-30
Completion
2018-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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