Children's Healthy Living Community Randomized Trial — CHL  

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title: Children's Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal is to build social/cultural, political/economic, and physical/built environments that will promote active play and intake of healthy food to prevent young child obesity in the Pacific Region. Our methods will support local culture in order to achieve this goal in these remote, underserved native populations. CHL will engage the community, and focus on capacity building and sustainable environmental change.

The focus of the CHL community-based program is to promote healthy eating and to increase physical activity. In order to demonstrate effectiveness, the investigators will recruit and measure children in six communities selected in each of our jurisdictions in the Pacific. These represent intervention communities, comparison communities, and temporal communities.

Clinical Trial Description

The specific objectives of our study are as follows.

Objective. Decrease the prevalence of young child overweight and obesity; and its functional outcomes (decrease acanthosis nigricans, and increase sleep; increase moderate to vigorous physical activity and decrease sedentary behavior (screen time); increase healthy eating (fruit and vegetable intake, water intake; decrease sweetened beverage intake), through community-based primary prevention environmental interventions in the Pacific region.

Objective. Measure 2-8-year-old children at baseline and 24 months in selected communities to track behaviors and anthropometry that indicate healthy eating, physical activity, and BMI.

Objective. Measure 2-8 year old children at 78 months in the selected communities to determine the long term effect of the CHL program. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acanthosis Nigricans
• Central Obesity
• Obesity
• Obesity, Abdominal

• NCT number: NCT01881373
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Hawaii
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 2012
• Completion date: March 2020