ObesityNCT00301197
Childhood Obesity Treatment: A Maintenance Approach
A study testing Behavioral Skills Maintenance and Social Facilitation Maintenance in people with Obesity, run by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Obesity is a major public health problem. At least 15 million American adults are obese, and the number is rising. Childhood obesity is also increasing in prevalence and currently affects approximately 11-22 percent of children aged 6 to 11. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 7 to 12 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Obesity
- What is being tested?
- Behavioral Skills Maintenance and Social Facilitation Maintenance
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- How many people
- 216 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Aug 1999to Apr 2004
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 7 to 12 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child
Who may be able to join
- Child:
- 20%-100% overweight
- 7-12 years old
- At least one parent:
- At least 20% overweight
- Actively participates in program along with participating child
- Both participating family members:
- Can read and speak English at a 3rd grade level
Who cannot join
- Either participating child or parent:
- has current psychopathology and is not in ongoing psychiatric care
- has an active substance abuse problem
- is not taking weight-affecting medications
- does not have a medical condition for which a weight loss program would be contraindicated
- does not have a physical disability of illness that limits their ability to do physical activity
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- does not have major dietary restrictions
- is not participating in an active weight loss treatment
- All family members:
- do not have an active eating disorder
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Washington University School of Medicine
St Louis, Missouri, 63110
About this study
Obesity is a major public health problem. At least 15 million American adults are obese, and the number is rising. Childhood obesity is also increasing in prevalence and currently affects approximately 11-22 percent of children aged 6 to 11. Childhood obesity is associated with serious negative physical, emotional, and social consequences. Obese children are at high risk for becoming obese as adults; 24-44 percent of obese adults were obese as children. The risk of an obese child becoming an obese adult is especially high when at least one parent is obese. To date, adult obesity is known to be resistant to treatment. In contrast, promising long-term effects have been found with children who received behavioral family-based weight loss treatment. However, even with state-of-the-science programs, a substantial percentage of children (i.e., over 40 percent) regain all or most of the weight lost once treatment ends. The proposed study examined the efficacy of two intervention strategies designed to improve the long-term maintenance of weight loss in children relative to discontinued treatment contact following an active weight loss treatment phase (no maintenance treatment control (NTC).
Read the detailed description
This is an efficacy study comparing two intervention strategies designed to improve the long-term maintenance of weight loss in children compared to a no maintenance treatment control group. In this study, overweight children between the ages of 7-12 years old participated along with their overweight parents in a 20-week behavioral, family-based weight loss treatment. Following weight loss treatment, participants were randomly assigned to one of two 4-month maintenance interventions or to a no-continued treatment control. The Behavioral Skills Maintenance intervention (BSM) will confront the declining motivation to engage in weight-maintenance behaviors, incorporate specific skills for weight maintenance, and teach coping skills and relapse prevention techniques. The Social Facilitation Maintenance treatment will use an innovative, socially-based approach to enhance peer support, increase parental instrumental support, improve body image, and teach effective responses to teasing as methods for sustaining weight maintenance behaviors (i.e., healthy diet and physical activity). It is expected that children participating in BSM and SFM interventions will demonstrate better outcomes at the point of the weight maintenance intervention cessation than children not provided any maintenance treatment. It is further hypothesized that the developmentally appropriate focus and more pervasive and sustaining nature of the SFM treatment targets relative to BSM targets will result in better weight maintenance outcomes for SFM than BSM children. Follow-up assessments will occur at the end of the maintenance phase of treatment, as well as at 12 and 24 months following the initial weight loss treatment. Effective maintenance treatments in children will have a substantial impact on children's immediate and future physical, psychological, and social well being.
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Being tested
- Behavioral Skills Maintenance, Social Facilitation Maintenance
- Keywords
- Childhood obesity, intervention, obesity, weight loss, behavior therapy, peer group, social support network, child, clinical research, human subject
- Medical subject headings
- Obesity, Pediatric Obesity, Weight Loss
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Behavioral Skills MaintenanceBehavioural
Social Facilitation MaintenanceBehavioural
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Weight (child and parent)
Secondary outcomes (2)
Weight related behaviors
Psychological functioning (specific and general)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted10 Mar 2006 (estimated)
- Study startAug 1999
- Study completionApr 2004
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for ObesityStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 216 participants
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Sponsor type
- US National Institutes of Health
- Investigators
- Denise E Wilfley, PhD, Principal investigator, Washington University School of Medicine
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00301197
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 5R01HD036904
- Status last verified
- Mar 2006
- First submitted
- 8 Mar 2006
- Last updated
- 10 Mar 2006
- Results posted
- No
Publications
Wilfley DE, Stein RI, Saelens BE, Mockus DS, Matt GE, Hayden-Wade HA, Welch RR, Schechtman KB, Thompson PA, Epstein LH. Efficacy of maintenance treatment approaches for childhood overweight: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2007 Oct 10;298(14):1661-73. doi: 10.1001/jama.298.14.1661.
PubMed 17925518
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 10 Mar 2006. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Childhood Obesity Treatment: A Maintenance Approach
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00301197
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 5R01HD036904
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Keywords
- Childhood obesity, intervention, obesity, weight loss, behavior therapy, peer group, social support network, child
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 216 participants
- Lead sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)US National Institutes of Health
- Study start
- Aug 1999
- Study completion
- Apr 2004
- First posted
- 10 Mar 2006 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Obesity is a major public health problem. At least 15 million American adults are obese, and the number is rising. Childhood obesity is also increasing in prevalence and currently affects approximately 11-22 percent of children aged 6 to 11. Childhood obesity is associated with serious negative physical, emotional, and social consequences. Obese children are at high risk for becoming obese as adults; 24-44 percent of obese adults were obese as children. The risk of an obese child becoming an obese adult is especially high when at least one parent is obese. To date, adult obesity is known to be resistant to treatment. In contrast, promising long-term effects have been found with children who received behavioral family-based weight loss treatment. However, even with state-of-the-science programs, a substantial percentage of children (i.e., over 40 percent) regain all or most of the weight lost once treatment ends. The proposed study examined the efficacy of two intervention strategies designed to improve the long-term maintenance of weight loss in children relative to discontinued treatment contact following an active weight loss treatment phase (no maintenance treatment control (NTC).
Detailed description
This is an efficacy study comparing two intervention strategies designed to improve the long-term maintenance of weight loss in children compared to a no maintenance treatment control group. In this study, overweight children between the ages of 7-12 years old participated along with their overweight parents in a 20-week behavioral, family-based weight loss treatment. Following weight loss treatment, participants were randomly assigned to one of two 4-month maintenance interventions or to a no-continued treatment control. The Behavioral Skills Maintenance intervention (BSM) will confront the declining motivation to engage in weight-maintenance behaviors, incorporate specific skills for weight maintenance, and teach coping skills and relapse prevention techniques. The Social Facilitation Maintenance treatment will use an innovative, socially-based approach to enhance peer support, increase parental instrumental support, improve body image, and teach effective responses to teasing as methods for sustaining weight maintenance behaviors (i.e., healthy diet and physical activity). It is expected that children participating in BSM and SFM interventions will demonstrate better outcomes at the point of the weight maintenance intervention cessation than children not provided any maintenance treatment. It is further hypothesized that the developmentally appropriate focus and more pervasive and sustaining nature of the SFM treatment targets relative to BSM targets will result in better weight maintenance outcomes for SFM than BSM children. Follow-up assessments will occur at the end of the maintenance phase of treatment, as well as at 12 and 24 months following the initial weight loss treatment. Effective maintenance treatments in children will have a substantial impact on children's immediate and future physical, psychological, and social well being.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 7 to 12 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (8 listed)
- 20%-100% overweight
- 7-12 years old
- At least 20% overweight
- Actively participates in program along with participating child
- Can read and speak English at a 3rd grade level
Key exclusion criteria (10 listed)
- has current psychopathology and is not in ongoing psychiatric care
- has an active substance abuse problem
- is not taking weight-affecting medications
- does not have a medical condition for which a weight loss program would be contraindicated
- does not have a physical disability of illness that limits their ability to do physical activity
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Skills Maintenance | Behavioural | – |
| Social Facilitation Maintenance | Behavioural | – |
Primary outcome
Weight (child and parent)
2 secondary outcomes
Weight related behaviors
Psychological functioning (specific and general)
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 10 Mar 2006.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 17925518Wilfley DE, Stein RI, Saelens BE, Mockus DS, Matt GE, Hayden-Wade HA, Welch RR, Schechtman KB, Thompson PA, Epstein LH. Efficacy of maintenance treatment approaches for childhood overweight: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2007 Oct 10;298(14):1661-73. doi: 10.1001/jama.298.14.1661.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Denise E Wilfley, PhD principal investigator
Washington University School of Medicine
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Behavioral Skills Maintenance and Social Facilitation Maintenance in people with Obesity, run by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 8 inclusion and 10 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 10 Mar 2006. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Weight (child and parent). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00301197, which also lists 1 linked publication.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 10 Mar 2006; AzTrials last refreshed its copy on 7 Nov 2026.