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La Vida Buena Childhood Obesity Program

NCT03781856 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2021-04-27

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Summary

Mariposa Community Health Center, a health center in Nogales, Arizona on the US-Mexico border, will provide a program to prevent obesity in children and create a community environment that supports a healthy lifestyle. Mariposa designed and implemented the La Vida Buena ("The Good Life") program and already know that helps families eat more healthily and exercise. Mariposa Community Health Center will test this program on younger children aged 5-8 years old. Providers will refer children who are overweight or obese to the La Vida Buena Program. In order to determine if the La Vida Buena program works, Mariposa Community Health center will implement the 8-week program with 100 overweight or obese children in their Nogales clinic. They will measure their weight (BMI), exercise levels and food habits at the beginning of the program and then 3- months and 6-months after the program ends. Mariposa will compare these results to children in the nearby Rio Rico clinic who do not receive the La Vida Buena program. These 100 overweight or obese children in Rio Rico will instead receive one educational session, and the same information will be collected regarding BMI, exercise level and food habits. After the 6-month period, the children from Rio Rico will be able to receive the full La Vida Buena program.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

La Vida Buena Program

The intervention is series of interactive one hour weekly classes over the course of 8 weeks related to child healthy weight, exercise and nutrition. Facilitated by community health workers, the classes are interactive and play-based and designed to engage both the child and accompanying parent or guardian in activities.

BEHAVIORAL

Brief Educational Session

A one hour session about nutrition and physical activity to address obesity facilitated by a community health worker

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mariposa Community Health Center

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of Arizona

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maia Ingram · University of Arizona

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
5 Years
Max Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-15
Primary Completion
2020-06-01
Completion
2020-09-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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