Family-centered Obesity Prevention: Communities for Healthy Living (CHL)

Summary

The Communities for Healthy Living (CHL) program is a family-focused intervention to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors including diet and physical activity among children (age 3-to 5-years) and their families, enrolled in Head Start.

Conditions

• Pediatric Obesity
• Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Parents Connect for Healthy Living (PConnect)

Parents Connect for Healthy Living (PConnect) parent curriculum: This 10-week program (20 hours total) engages Head Start parents in a wide range of topics related to health and empowerment and is designed to foster a safe, open forum through which parents can connect with other parents and mobilize resources to support their family's health; NOTE: The PConnect program was not implemented in 2019-2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020-2021, PConnect was implemented virtually; these are pilot data and not part of the main trial.

BEHAVIORAL

Enhanced Nutrition Support

Enhanced Nutrition Support: Existing nutrition resources within Head Start (e.g., Biannual child health letters) are expanded and improved to ensure parents are aware of their child's weight status and are linked with age-appropriate weight management services if their child has overweight or obesity. NOTE: Enhanced nutrition support was not implemented in spring 2020 due to the pandemic. In 2020-2021, it was moved to a virtual format in what will be a pilot virtual trial.

BEHAVIORAL

Media Resources

Media Resources: Print and online resources that employ consistent messaging to reach parents and ensure that behavior change messages are accessible to families. NOTE: Due to the pandemic, media resources were not shared in spring 2020. They were implemented in virtual format in 2020-2021 in a pilot virtual trial.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Action for Boston Community Development

  collaborator OTHER

• Community Action Agency of Somerville

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)

  collaborator OTHER

• University at Albany

  collaborator OTHER

• Massachusetts General Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Boston College

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Kirsten Davison, PhD · Boston College

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2017-10-01

Primary Completion

2019-12-31

Completion

2019-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations