Healthy Eating and Lifestyle for Total Health

Eating Behavior Clinical Trial

— HEALTH  

Official title:

Healthy Eating and Lifestyle for Total Health

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02725970
• Other study ID #: H-23839
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 22, 2016
• Last updated: March 31, 2016
• Start date: January 2011
• Est. completion date: June 2015

Study information

• Verified date: March 2016
• Source: Baylor College of Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide recommendations for making better food and physical activity choices that promote health and help prevent disease. Yet, few Americans meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and a large percentage are overweight.

Description:

The goal of the research was to examine the association between weight and the barriers and facilitators to meeting the DGA in a multi-site study using a cross-sectional survey. 836 caregiver-child dyads enrolled and completed the HEALTH study questionnaire across six sites among three race/ethnic groups participating in the HEALTH Study. Barriers and facilitators to meeting the DGA were assessed using a validated questionnaire which was developed specifically for the HEALTH Study. Heights and weights were measured. A series of bivariate regression analyses were conducted to examine the association between the caregivers BMI or the children BMI z-score and the barriers and facilitators to meeting the DGA, adjusting for appropriate covariates in the models. Path analysis was used to examine the relationship of caregivers and children barriers and facilitators to their relative BMI.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 836
• Est. completion date: June 2015
• Est. primary completion date: August 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 8 Years to 64 Years

Eligibility

1. Children in grade 5 and primary caregiver of a child in the 5th grade (the primary caregiver was defined as the person responsible for the health of the child and who has the most influence in what the child eats most days of the week)

2. Attend public school and caregiver to a child in a public school

3. Fell in one of three racial/ethnic groups (African Americans, Hispanics, White)

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Pregnant women were not recruited as their dietary intake was different because of pregnancy.

2. Children not attending 5th grade in public school.

3. Parents of children not attending 5th grade in public school

4. parents of children attending 5th grade in public school but who were not responsible for the health of the child and who did not have the most influence in what the qualified child ate most days of the week.

Study Design

Observational Model: Family-Based, Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Eating Behavior

Intervention

Other:
• survey
Cross-sectional survey

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center	Houston	Texas

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Baylor College of Medicine	Dairy Management Inc., United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Nicklas TA, Jahns L, Bogle ML, Chester DN, Giovanni M, Klurfeld DM, Laugero K, Liu Y, Lopez S, Tucker KL. Barriers and facilitators for consumer adherence to the dietary guidelines for Americans: the HEALTH study. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2013 Oct;113(10):1317-31. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2013.05.004. Epub 2013 Jul 17. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Measuring and Reporting on the Barriers and Facilitators to Meeting the Dietary Guidelines of Americans among 5th Graders and the Caregivers of 5th Graders Was Assessed Using Questionnaires.		3/2010- 7/2012	No