Piloting Conversation Cards for Adolescents

Summary

Providers are not opportunistic enough in addressing lifestyle habits of teens, and can benefit from appropriate tools to support their conversations with families as well as engage all family members in making changes. Since most teens with obesity do not meet minimum lifestyle recommendations, our team developed Conversation Cards for Adolescents (CCAs), a tool to help teens and providers communicate and set lifestyle goals together. In this study, the investigators will (i) observe if and how CCAs fit in a clinical setting for changing teen-provider interactions and teens's lifestyle habits, (ii) ask teens and providers for their thoughts on CCAs and how they are used, and (iii) determine preliminary impact of CCAs on teen behaviors and clinical factors. The investigators will do this with around 50 teens from a primary/secondary care clinic in Edmonton, Alberta. Teens will be randomized to one of two groups - one group will use CCAs in their appointment with their providers to set a goal for change, while the other will also set a goal for change, but without using CCAs. Results from this study will give us insight into how CCAs are best used in a clinical setting and will help us plan a future full-scale study.

Conditions

• Adolescent Obesity
• Life Style
• Health Behavior
• Health Communication
• Primary Health Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Conversation Cards for Adolescents and Goal-Setting

The intervention includes using an adolescent-tailored tool (a deck of cards) created by researchers at the University of Alberta and adolescents with obesity seeking weight management care. It contains a list of factors that make it easy or hard for teens to make and maintain healthy lifestyle changes. Its use will be paired with a S.M.A.R.T. goal-setting activity using principles of shared decision-making.

BEHAVIORAL

Goal-Setting

Collaborative setting of S.M.A.R.T. goals using principles of shared decision-making.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Alberta Health services

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Alberta

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Geoff DC Ball, PhD, RD · University of Alberta

• Maryam Kebbe, PhD · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

13 Years

Max Age

17 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-03-15

Primary Completion

2022-07-07

Completion

2022-07-07

Countries

• Canada

Study Locations