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Parent Involvement in Adolescent Obesity Treatment

NCT03851796 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 418

Last updated 2025-12-12

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Summary

A randomized control trial to compare the efficacy of two distinct parent treatments on weight loss maintenance for adolescents with obesity participating in a lifestyle intervention including nutrition education, exercise and behavioral support.

Funding support from NIH via 1R01HD095910

Conditions

  • Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TEENS+Parents as Coaches

Parents as Coaches teaches parenting strategies to facilitate healthy weight loss in adolescent children; adolescents are in a group based behavioral weight management treatment.

BEHAVIORAL

TEENS+Parent Weight Loss

Parent Weight loss teaches core behavioral weight loss strategies and techniques for parent weight loss; adolescents are in a group based behavioral weight management treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Tennessee

    collaborator OTHER

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Melanie K Bean, PhD · Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-23
Primary Completion
2024-10-26
Completion
2024-10-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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