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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT01040897
Date of registration: 28/12/2009
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Vanderbilt University
Public title: Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy to Prevent Childhood Obesity GreenLight
Scientific title: Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Date of first enrolment: April 28, 2010
Target sample size: 865
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01040897
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Single Group Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
United States
Contacts
Name:     Shonna Yin, MD MS
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Affiliation:  NYU
Name:     Russell L Rothman, MD MPP
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Affiliation:  Vanderbilt University
Name:     Kori Flower, MD MS MPH
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Affiliation:  UNC Chapel Hill
Name:     Alan Delamater, LP PhD
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Affiliation:  University of Miami
Name:     Eliana Perrin, MD MPH
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Affiliation:  Duke University
Name:     Lee Sanders, MD MPH
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Affiliation:  Stanford University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Specific Inclusion Criteria at the parent-child dyad level will include:

- Consent from a primary caregiver (i.e., parent or legal guardian)

- Caregiver's ability to speak English or Spanish

- Infant presenting for a 2 month well-child visit (child is 6 = 12 weeks old)

- Caregiver agrees to participate in the study, and agrees to bring their child to all
well-child care visits until their 2 year well-child care visit.

Specific Exclusion Criteria at the parent-child dyad level will include:

- Child born prior to 32 weeks' gestational age or with a birth weight < 1500 grams

- Child with weight/length < 3rd percentile at 2 months of age

- Child with a diagnosis of failure to thrive or with weight that has dropped = 2
percentile curves since the previous well child visit

- Child with known medical problems that may affect their ability to thrive or requires
a special diet (e.g. metabolic disease, uncorrected congenital heart disease, renal
disease, lung disease)

- Caregiver with significant mental or neurologic illness likely to impair their ability
to participate

- Caregiver age < 18 years

- Caregiver with known plans to move out of the immediate area during the study period

- Caregiver with poor visual acuity (i.e. vision worse than 20/50 with Rosenbaum Pocket
Screener as assessed at the time of recruitment)

Specific Inclusion Criteria at the Pediatric Resident level will include:

- Participation in the medical center's pediatric resident training program

- Providing regular care (> 3 sessions per month) in the pediatric resident primary care
clinic; AND

- Consent to participate in the study

Specific Exclusion Criteria at the Pediatric Resident level will include:

- Providing no regular care in the pediatric resident primary care clinic (e.g.,
transitional-year resident, Medicine/Pediatrics resident); OR

- Known plans to leave the training program during the ensuing 6 months



Age minimum: 6 Weeks
Age maximum: 12 Weeks
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Obesity Prevention
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Injury Prevention Arm
Behavioral: Health Communication and Obesity Prevention
Primary Outcome(s)
Percent of children overweight or obese (BMI = 85th%) at 2 years of life [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary Outcome(s)
BMI z score [Time Frame: 2 years]
Change in Weight/Length z-score over time [Time Frame: 2 years]
Physician knowledge and satisfaction [Time Frame: 2 years]
Parental report of infant eating and physical activity behaviors [Time Frame: assessed at each well child visit]
Parental assessment of physician communication [Time Frame: each clinic visit]
Parental self-efficacy [Time Frame: 2 years]
Secondary ID(s)
1R01HD059794-01
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Stanford University
University of Miami
New York University
Duke University
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Ethics review
Results
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