Families Improving Together (FIT) for Weight Loss
Overweight, Obese
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Overweight focused on measuring Motivational intervention, Positive Parenting Intervention, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, African American, Adolescent
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must have a parent or primary caregiver who lives in the same house as the adolescent
- Live within 60 miles of the program's office
- Have at least 3 grandparents who are African American
- Access to the internet
- Children between the ages of 11 and 16
- Child must have BMI above 85th percentile and below 99th percentile
- Have no medical condition that would limit participation in moderate intensity exercise including life-threatening illness (e.g., immobile, severely disabled, or bed ridden)
- Available and able to participate in measures and intervention activities over the next year
Exclusion Criteria:
- Adolescents with chronic illness
- Adolescents who require a specialized diet may not be eligible
- Developmental delay
- Partaking currently in another weight loss program
Sites / Locations
- Obesity Research Group
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Active Comparator
Mot. & Fam. Weight Loss + Online Interv.
Mot. & Fam. Weight Loss + Online Control
Basic Health Educ. & Online Interv.
Basic Health Educ. & Online Control
Participants are randomized to motivational and family weight loss program plus the online intervention.
Participants are randomized to motivational and family weight loss intervention and then the online control program.
Participants are randomized to the basic health education program and then the online intervention program.
Participants are randomized to the basic health education program and then to the online control program.