Clinical trials: Obesity Prevention
Childhood Obesity
Type 2 Diabetes Prevention Toolkit for Health-Care Professionals
Tools are limited to help health care professionals talk about weight-related issues with their pediatric patients. The investigators have developed 6 whiteboard videos for health care professionals based on the 5As of Pediatric…
- Trial name
- NCT04126291
- Testing
- Evaluation of whiteboard videos
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 65 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Overweight, Infant, Overweight and Obesity
Lille Study for Childhood Health Promotion
Obesity could be avoided but once declared it become a chronic disease with numerous health complications, including cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancers, and finally a loss of life expectancy.
- Conditions
- Overweight, Infant, Overweight and Obesity, Overweight, Childhood
- Trial name
- ELIPSE (NCT05121090)
- Testing
- Educational program
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 460 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Lille
Type 2 Diabetes, PreDiabetes
Butyrate-enriched Triglyceride and Diabetes Prevention
A body of animal studies as well as observational studies in humans demonstrated that butyrate is one SCFA that has pronounced positive effects on body weight control, inflammation, and insulin resistance.
- Conditions
- Type 2 Diabetes, PreDiabetes, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT06384313
- Testing
- butyrate/hexanoate-enriched triglycerides
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 44 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maastricht University Medical Center
Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Disease
PRE-STARt Intervention - Trial of an Interactive Family Based Lifestyle Programme
To investigate whether the interactive family based lifestyle programme leads to behaviour change at 6 months with the primary outcome being increased levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA).
- Conditions
- Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Disease, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT02845791
- Testing
- Interactive Lifestyle programme workshop
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 318 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospitals, Leicester
Obesity, Obesity, Childhood
Healthy Homes, Healthy Habits
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether an intervention targeting healthy habit development reduces the risk and prevalence of obesity in low-income mothers and children.
- Conditions
- Obesity, Obesity, Childhood, Obesity; Familial
- Trial name
- HABITS (NCT03433456)
- Testing
- Home visitation + HABITS program, Standard home visitation program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 296 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bottle Feeding
GrowWell - Responsive Bottle Feeding
The overall goal of this research is use digital health to augment the clinical encounter with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinicians and prevent rapid infant weight gain among children living in low-income households.
- Trial name
- NCT06319807
- Testing
- Digital Health Intervention, Safety Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 69 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Childhood Obesity
Childhood Obesity Prevention Program for Hispanics
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a culturally-appropriate childhood obesity intervention with Hispanic families.
- Trial name
- NCT01156402
- Testing
- Healthy Families-Childhood Obesity Prevention and Oral Health
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 319 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Meharry Medical College
Obesity Prevention
Acute Time-Restricted Eating in Young Healthy Males
This study compared the metabolic response to three different eating windows (morning fast,12pm-8pm; evening fast, 8am-4pm; control, 8am-8pm).
- Trial name
- NCT05309798
- Testing
- Evening Fasting, Morning Fasting, Control
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nottingham Trent University
Breast Neoplasms
Alberta Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Prevention (ALPHA) Trial
The purpose of the ALPHA Trial is to examine the physiologic changes that occur in a woman's body when she begins exercising that may be related to a change in her risk of getting breast cancer.
- Trial name
- NCT00522262
- Testing
- Aerobic exercise intervention
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 320 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- AHS Cancer Control Alberta
Childhood Obesity
Project Fun: Parents And Youth Together
The proposed study is a continuation of a randomized, controlled pilot effectiveness trial conducted in schools wherein the feasibility and completion of the trial by parents and children will now additionally be examined in…
- Trial name
- NCT01799759
- Testing
- Online intervention, Completion of instruments only
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 276 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Marquette University
Obesity Prevention
Pennington Generation Cohort
The Pennington Generation Cohort is an observational study comprised of Louisiana families. Families will be assessed at baseline for a variety of traits and behaviors, and then followed up over time to try to understand the role…
- Trial name
- NCT06849206
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 3,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Overweight, Obesity
Fruit And Vegetable Or Recreation Prescriptions for UW-Madison Students
This research will use randomized controlled trial (RCT) methodology to assess the feasibility of a prescription for fruit/vegetable CSA shares or exercise by bikeshare on obesity-related outcomes.
- Trial name
- FAVORx (NCT02870322)
- Testing
- Fruit and Vegetable CSA Prescription, Bikeshare Prescription
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Cognition, Obesity
Nutrition for Brain and Body Health (BB-Health) Feasibility Trial
The goal of the trial is to determine the feasibility of implementing a specific nutrition regimen used alone or in combination with a behavioral weight loss (WL) intervention on cognition and cerebral blood flow in older adults…
- Trial name
- BB-Health (NCT05542199)
- Testing
- Multicomponent nutrition supplement (MCNS), Behavioral weight loss program
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tufts University
Obesity Prevention
Television Viewing (TVV) & Puberty on Lunchtime Food Intake
The investigators hypothesize that television viewing will affect food intake in adolescent girls, and will depend on pubertal stage.
- Trial name
- NCT01025687
- Testing
- water with noncalorie sweetener, water with glucose, TV program showed while feeding
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Toronto
Overweight, Obesity
Early Stockholm Obesity Prevention Program (EarlySTOPP-China)
Early STOPP project promotes good health in children from early age by supporting good habits for the whole family. Our aim is to see if we can prevent overweight and obesity in children in families where parents are overweight…
- Trial name
- EarlySTOPP-CN (NCT02396784)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 300 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Obesity, Childhood Obesity
Implementing Prevention Plus for Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Food Secure and Insecure Families
The ability of Prevention Plus to improve weight status when delivered by primary care providers is unknown, and the influence of household food security status as a moderator in the treatment of childhood obesity has never been…
- Trial name
- NCT02684214
- Testing
- Prevention Plus +, Prevention Plus -
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 73 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Diabetes Prevention, Obesity Prevention
A FINEH Protein Trial - Part 1
The objectives of this trial are to assess the health benefits of acute hemp protein consumption compared to soybean protein and a non-protein control on: 1) blood glucose, appetite and blood pressure for one hour following…
- Trial name
- NCT02366598
- Testing
- Hemp shake, Soybean shake, Control
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 31 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Manitoba
Obesity, Child
Kids Obesity Prevention Program - Study (KOP)
Obesity and its associated comorbidities are becoming a key and rapidly growing public health problem. The cause of obesity is an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure in favor of the former.
- Trial name
- KOP (NCT02551978)
- Testing
- The serious game KOP
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Tuebingen
Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease
The WORLD (Weight Optimization: Revamping Lifestyles Using the Dietary Guidelines) Study - Developing, Implementing, and Testing an Education Program
The WORLD study is a single-center, year-long randomized controlled trial in free-living women. Participants were randomly assigned to follow either a lower-fat (LF) diet or a moderate-fat (MF) diet for weight management in a…
- Trial name
- WORLD (NCT00847574)
- Testing
- Moderate-fat, Lower-fat
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 101 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Obesity
A Multi-component Program to Reduce Obesity in Children
In an attempt to challenge the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, many programs have been executed in order to improve childrens' lifestyle. Programs involved either school, family or environmental measures.
- Trial name
- NCT00747513
- Testing
- lifestyle program
- Where
- 22 sites in Israel
- Volunteers
- 3,600 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sheba Medical Center