View clinical trials related to Childhood Obesity.
Filter by:The child health and sports center, at the Meir Medical Center, runs for over 10 years an intervention program to treat obese children. The program includes physical activity, nutritional intervention and behavioral treatment. A similar program exists in the nearby city of Hadera. The aim of the programs is to promote weight loss, encourage physical activity and modify behavior in order to get long term results. The aim of the present study is to try and identify the demographic and behavioral characteristics of children who succeed in the program.
The purpose of this pilot project is to test anticipatory guidance, which is information given to families during a well child visit to prevent obesity during childhood. The objectives were to compare two styles of anticipatory guidance during the first year of life, maternal focused and infant focused, versus usual care and determine which style, if any, showed the most ideal infant feeding behaviors at age 1 year and to see if there were any differences in infant weight for height at one year of age. The investigators hypothesized that mothers who received the maternal focused anticipatory guidance (which gave information on eating family meals, not having tv on during meals, and maternal nutrition) would actually have the best infant feeding behaviors and weight for height of infants at one year.
The proposed study is a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a primary care, family-centered child obesity prevention program beginning in pregnancy and continuing throughout the first three years of life compared to routine standard of care. The study aims to reduce the prevalence of obesity at age three, improve child diet composition and healthy lifestyle behaviors. Pregnant women will be enrolled from a large urban medical center serving primarily low-income immigrant Latino families. The intervention "Starting Early" will consist of three components. 1) Family Groups: interactive groups coordinated with the child's primary care visits and led by a Nutritionist/ Child Developmental Specialist. 2) Nutritional Video: a culturally-specific bilingual early nutrition video will be incorporated into family group discussions. 3) Plain Language Handouts: given to reinforce the curriculum from the family groups. The proposed research included in the funding continuation is titled: "Starting Early: Expansion of a Primary Care-Based Early Child Obesity Prevention Program". It adds three major components to the current project: 1) Following the original Starting Early cohort until age 5; 2) Developing and piloting an extended Starting Early preschool intervention for children aged 3-5 years.; 3) Developing and piloting an extended Starting Early prenatal intervention for women in the 1st trimester of pregnancy. A new cohort of 200 women in the first trimester of pregnancy will be recruited for the prenatal intervention; all women will receive the intervention in this feasibility trial. Hypothesis: Compared to controls, the intervention group will show reduced obesity and improved parent feeding knowledge and increased healthy feeding attitudes, styles and practices
The purpose of this study is to develop, implement and evaluate an intervention focused to change feeding practices and patterns of physical activity of preschool children through providing motivational counseling to the mother. The aim is to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years 11 months with risk of overweight or with overweight.
The main goal of this project is to develop, deliver, and assess the efficacy of a parent-centered educational program (4-Health) designed to prevent preteen children from becoming overweight.
Identification and validation of early chronic disease biomarkers in children is of paramount importance especially in the burgeoning arena of pediatric obesity research. Despite the presence of risk factors, few obese children develop overt cardiovascular disease (CVD) early in life. However, because CVD is a cumulative process occurring over time, identifying the earliest signs in order to intervene sooner may have a large impact on slowing its progression. Endothelial activation is one of the earliest detectable signs of the beginnings of CVD. However, accurately quantifying endothelial health in children has proven to be a major challenge. Direct measures of endothelial cell biology, such as circulating endothelial cells (CEC) and endothelial microparticles (EMP), have been extensively studied in adults and are associated with vascular diseases, CVD risk factors, and CVD events. Despite being well-validated in adults, CEC and EMP have not been formally evaluated as disease biomarkers in children and adolescents. Pediatric obesity is an ideal condition in which to validate CEC and EMP as disease biomarkers since adiposity in childhood is associated with CVD, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and premature death, later in life. The investigators primary focus in this study will be the evaluation of CEC and EMP as biomarkers of CVD risk and whether substantial changes in weight affect these biomarkers. The investigators propose to evaluate the change in levels of CEC and EMP in response to substantial weight loss in 32 adolescents with extreme obesity undergoing elective, clinically-indicated bariatric surgery.
The aim of this study is to compare the effects of exercise training and family-based behavioral treatment, either in individual or in group setting, in pre-pubertal children and their mother.
Childhood obesity is increasing at a fast pace, together with its complications. The aim of the present study is to assess several candidate triggering agents, mechanisms and intermediate phenotypes of atherosclerosis during the post-prandial phase in the obese insulin-resistant child/adolescent.
This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive community based program on reducing excess weight in children and teens. This study will recruit 150 participants between the ages of 6-12 and 13-17.
The purpose of this study is to gather information on how much exercising with video games (ExerGaming) can increase the physical activity among overweight and youth. This study will try to see if participating in physical activity and exercising with video games at the same time can make overweight children move around more to better their own health. The hypothesis is that those in Exergaming arm will physiological changes and increase physical activity.