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Childhood ObesityARCHESNCT03246763

Active Recreation Through Community-Healthcare Engagement Study

A study testing Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment in people with Childhood Obesity and Quality of Life, run by Duke University at 7 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

Current obesity treatment guidelines recommend 26 or more hours of behavior treatment, delivered over a 6-month period in a multidisciplinary weight management clinic. However, this guideline is not feasible in real-world clinic settings where medical visits are costly and poorly reimbursed, and attrition is high… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 2 to 18 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Childhood Obesity, Quality of Life
What is being tested?
Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
202 participants
Where
7 sitesUnited States
Study dates
7 Jun 2018to 1 May 2020
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 2 to 18 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Child, Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Child aged 2-17 years
  • Child with age- and gender-specific BMI ≥ 85th percentile

Who cannot join

  • Inability to read and write in English or Spanish
  • Parent with severe medical or mental health condition limiting ability to attend appointments
  • Child with severe medical or mental health condition limiting ability to attend appointments or participate in behavioral therapies
  • Parent and child live greater than 50 miles from the clinic and community center
  • Plan to move out of state in the next 6 months, or plan to live in another state for 2 months or longer within the next 6 months (ex., summer vacation).
  • Child with medical condition as cause of obesity (e.g., hypothyroidism, Cushing's Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, drug-induced obesity)

Trial locations and contacts

7 sites in 1 country.

7 sites in 1 country

United States7 sites
  • First Health

    Biscoe, North Carolina, 27209

  • East Durham Children's Initiative

    Durham, North Carolina, 27703

  • Duke Healthy Lifestyles

    Durham, North Carolina, 27708

  • Better Health

    Fayetteville, North Carolina, 28301

  • Goldsboro Parks and Recreation

    Goldsboro, North Carolina, 27530

  • Wake Med

    Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601

  • Healthy Rowan

    Salisbury, North Carolina, 28144

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About this study

Current obesity treatment guidelines recommend 26 or more hours of behavior treatment, delivered over a 6-month period in a multidisciplinary weight management clinic. However, this guideline is not feasible in real-world clinic settings where medical visits are costly and poorly reimbursed, and attrition is high, particularly among the most vulnerable children. The National Collaborative on Child Obesity Research has issued a call for research investigating healthcare-community partnerships to improve the effectiveness of child obesity treatment. The World Health Organization supports this approach, and in 2015 modified the chronic disease model to include healthcare-community integration. ARCHES is a three-year project that will develop and evaluate an effective, engaging, and scalable community-healthcare treatment option for low-income and racially diverse children. The project engages four communities in North Carolina and facilitates a local clinic-community partnership, supports the development of an integrated childhood obesity treatment program, and evaluates the feasibility of the integrated program model. The effectiveness of the integrated model will also be evaluated, as we will monitor patient outcomes associated with participation. Participation among teens (ages 11-18) will be incentivized where teen/caregiver dyads will be randomized to a gain or loss frame group at the beginning of the study and have the opportunity to receive and redeem points for attending sessions. Patient and process outcomes associated with participation in the integrated model with and without financial incentives will be evaluated.

Read the detailed description

The investigators propose a three-year project to evaluate the implementation feasibility and effectiveness of an integrated clinic-community model of child obesity treatment. The investigators will engage four communities in North Carolina, facilitate a local clinic-community partnership, support the development of an integrated child obesity treatment program, and monitor outcomes. To evaluate implementation feasibility the investigators will measure fidelity, reach, acceptability, uptake and cost. To evaluate the program model the investigators will conduct a classical program evaluation by monitoring aggregate referral, enrollment and attendance data, as well as safety and patient satisfaction. To report patient outcomes associated with participation in the integrated model, the investigators will measure participant-level outcomes over a 6-month period, including changes in nutrition and physical activity behaviors, quality of life, cardiovascular fitness, and body mass index.

Being tested
Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment
Keywords
childhood obesity
Medical subject headings
Pediatric Obesity

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatmentBehavioural

    The intervention will include nutrition and fitness programming at a local community center. The program will be open at least two sessions per week, each session lasting at least 1 hour. The program coordinator will run the programming, which will consist of wellness activities. Each session will include at least 60 minutes of exercise and/or active play, and each session will have an additional special "theme." For example, one session might include a cardio focused class, and one session might include a yoga class. The number and which sessions the participants attend each week is voluntary; clinic staff will recommend participation in as many sessions per week as possible. Participation is voluntary, and patients may opt-out at any time. Participants will be told that they can indicate to their provider or the program coordinator at any time either by phone or during the clinic appointment that they wish to opt-out of the study and its assessments.

Study groups in NCT03246763
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Durham CountyExperimentalThe intervention will include nutrition and fitness programming at a community center. The program will be open at least two sessions per week, each session lasting at least 1 hour. The program coordinator will run the programming, which will consist of comprehensive wellness activities. Each session will include at least 60 minutes of exercise and/or active play, and each session will have an additional special "theme." For example, one session might include a cardio focused class, and one session might include a yoga class. The number and which sessions the participants attend each week is voluntary; clinic staff will recommend participation in as many sessions per week as possible. Participation is voluntary, and patients may opt-out at any time. Participants will be told that they can indicate to their provider or the program coordinator at any time either by phone or during the clinic appointment that they wish to opt-out of the study and its assessments.
Receives: Behavioral: Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment
Richmond/Montgomery CountiesExperimentalThe intervention will include nutrition and fitness programming at a community center. The program will be open at least two sessions per week, each session lasting at least 1 hour. The program coordinator will run the programming, which will consist of comprehensive wellness activities. Each session will include at least 60 minutes of exercise and/or active play, and each session will have an additional special "theme." For example, one session might include a cardio focused class, and one session might include a yoga class. The number and which sessions the participants attend each week is voluntary; clinic staff will recommend participation in as many sessions per week as possible. Participation is voluntary, and patients may opt-out at any time. Participants will be told that they can indicate to their provider or the program coordinator at any time either by phone or during the clinic appointment that they wish to opt-out of the study and its assessments.
Receives: Behavioral: Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment
TBDExperimentalThe intervention will include nutrition and fitness programming at a community center. The program will be open at least two sessions per week, each session lasting at least 1 hour. The program coordinator will run the programming, which will consist of comprehensive wellness activities. Each session will include at least 60 minutes of exercise and/or active play, and each session will have an additional special "theme." For example, one session might include a cardio focused class, and one session might include a yoga class. The number and which sessions the participants attend each week is voluntary; clinic staff will recommend participation in as many sessions per week as possible. Participation is voluntary, and patients may opt-out at any time. Participants will be told that they can indicate to their provider or the program coordinator at any time either by phone or during the clinic appointment that they wish to opt-out of the study and its assessments.
Receives: Behavioral: Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment
To be determinedExperimentalThe intervention will include nutrition and fitness programming at a community center. The program will be open at least two sessions per week, each session lasting at least 1 hour. The program coordinator will run the programming, which will consist of comprehensive wellness activities. Each session will include at least 60 minutes of exercise and/or active play, and each session will have an additional special "theme." For example, one session might include a cardio focused class, and one session might include a yoga class. The number and which sessions the participants attend each week is voluntary; clinic staff will recommend participation in as many sessions per week as possible. Participation is voluntary, and patients may opt-out at any time. Participants will be told that they can indicate to their provider or the program coordinator at any time either by phone or during the clinic appointment that they wish to opt-out of the study and its assessments.
Receives: Behavioral: Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Eligibility

    Number of eligible patients

    Measured: Baseline

  2. Referral

    Number of referred patients

    Measured: Baseline

  3. Enrollment

    Number of patients referred who enroll

    Measured: Baseline

  4. Attendance

    Number of participants present at each activity session

    Measured: Through study completion, average of 1 year

  5. Fidelity

    Measured by program post-session evaluation survey

    Measured: Through study completion, average of 1 year

  6. Change in quality of life

    Measured by Sizing me Up survey

    Measured: Baseline, 6 months, 12 months

  7. Change in height

    Measured: 0 months, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months

  8. Change in nutrition habits (self report)

    Measured: 0 months, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months

  9. Food insecurity

    Measured by The Hunger Vital Sign food insecurity assessment

    Measured: Baseline

  10. Change in cardiovascular fitness

    Measured: 0 months, 3 months, 6 months

  11. Patient satisfaction

    Measured by patient satisfaction survey

    Measured: 6 months

  12. Change in social cohesion

    Measured by social cohesion questionnaire

    Measured: 3 months, 6 months

  13. Change in weight

    Measured: 0 months, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months

  14. Change in activity (self report)

    Measured: 0 months, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted11 Aug 2017
  2. Study start7 Jun 2018
  3. Primary completion1 May 2020
  4. Study completion1 May 2020

Resources

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
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Model description
The investigators will conduct a mixed-methods study using focus groups and interviews to explore the facilitators and barriers to program implementation, and a time-series analysis to examine program engagement and individual health outcomes. This study design will be repeated at each of the four sites. Aim 1 will consent and enroll program providers to obtain qualitative feedback on program design and implementation; Aim 2 will collect de-identified program-level data on attendance and program components; Aim 3 will consent patients for individual-level baseline and outcomes data.Subjects will be enrolled at our community sites. A research assistant will conduct all the enrollment, consent, and data collection. Where needed, the investigators will report or obtain required IRB authorization agreements for each site, including Federal Wide Assurances, Data Transfer Agreements, or other documents as required by federal regulation.
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
202 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03246763
Sponsor's protocol ID
Pro00084070
Acronym
ARCHES
Status last verified
Aug 2020
First submitted
4 Aug 2017
Last updated
14 Aug 2020
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Alexander E, Skinner A, Gaskin K, Jones J, Wong C, Loflin C, Fleming R, Howard J, Armstrong S, Neshteruk C. A Mixed-Methods Examination of Referral Processes to Clinic-Community Partnership Programs for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity. Child Obes. 2021 Dec;17(8):516-524. doi: 10.1089/chi.2020.0361. Epub 2021 Jul 5.

    PubMed 34227849

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Integrated community-healthcare childhood obesity treatment in people with Childhood Obesity and Quality of Life, run by Duke University at 7 sites 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 2 inclusion and 6 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 14 Aug 2020. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 7 sites 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?

Eligibility (time frame: Baseline). The study lists 14 primary outcomes in all. 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 NCT03246763, 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 14 Aug 2020.

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