Treatment Efforts Addressing Child Weight Management by Unifying Patients, Parents & Providers (TEAM UP)
Obesity, Childhood, Pediatric Obesity, Childhood Obesity
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Obesity, Childhood focused on measuring Weight Management, Child, Intervention, Weight Loss, Behavior Therapy, Nutrition
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria for children include:
- have a BMI percentile ≥95th for age and sex;
- comfortable speaking English language;
- able to provide written or verbal (based on age) informed assent;
- willing to change diet, physical activity, and/or weight;
- patient of a participating clinic/practice; and
- able to participate in scheduled sessions.
Inclusion Criteria for parents include:
• comfortable speaking and reading English language.
Exclusion Criteria include:
- families who plan to no longer have the child be a patient of any participating clinic/practice during any point in the 18-month study period;
- children with chronic conditions or on medications that substantially impact or interfere with growth, appetite, weight, or physical activity participation;
- families for whom the Primary Care Provider (PCP) or site PI thinks the intervention is clinically/medically inappropriate (e.g., developmental delay, or emotional or cognitive difficulties, if the PI/PCP believes these factors will interfere with study/intervention participation); and
- families in whom the parent or child exhibits eating disorder symptomatology.
Sites / Locations
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
- Washington University School of Medicine
- University of Missouri School of Medicine
- Washington University School of Medicine
- University of Rochester Medical Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Active Comparator
Active Comparator
Enhanced Standard of Care (eSOC)
Family-Based Behavioral Treatment (FBT + eSOC)
This group will receive the eSOC program. A minimum of 6 visits to the primary care provider (PCP) and includes assessment of weight status, patient/family motivation and readiness to change, promotion of healthy eating and activity habits, and use of health behavior change strategies.
This group will receive eSOC plus the FBT program. Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT), an effective treatment that targets both child and parents meeting regularly with a health coach for healthy eating, activity, positive parenting strategies, and managing environmental cues.