COMPLETED

Addressing Obesity in Early Care and Education Settings

Study Overview

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Description

Childhood obesity is a national epidemic that disproportionately burdens low income and ethnic minority populations. By preschool, nearly one-third of low income children are already overweight or obese, setting the stage for adverse health outcomes over their life course. Evidence is mounting that individual-focused, single-component interventions fail to produce long-term population-level changes in obesity-related outcomes. Evidence increasingly supports creating entire environments (e.g., schools) in which the healthy choice is the default option. The investigators will conduct a pragmatic cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multilevel (organization, teacher, parent, child) intervention to support healthy eating and physical activity in preschools. The study is being conducted in partnership with Child Care Resource Center (CCRC), a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that all children receive high quality preschool experiences. The investigators will randomly assign 60 preschool sites (stratified by size), located in underserved areas of Los Angeles, to the intervention or a usual practice control conditions. The investigators will evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention on child BMI z-scores (primary outcome) and parent-reported child nutrition and physical activity (secondary outcomes). The investigators will systematically examine the implementation process to understand factors that may facilitate or hinder intervention uptake and success. The findings from this work will be critical for informing future dissemination efforts.

Official Title

Addressing Obesity in Early Care and Education Settings

Quick Facts

Study Start:2019-10-01
Study Completion:2024-05-31
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:COMPLETED

Study ID

NCT04140032

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:30 Months
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Must be in CCRC network of preschools
  2. * Have 20 or more preschool aged children (2.5-5 years old) in attendance at site
  3. * Children must eat at least one meal on-site per school day
  4. * Must have at least one preschool classroom
  5. * Teachers must teach a preschool class at participating preschool
  6. * Be able to provide informed consent
  7. * Child must be 2.5-5 years old and enrolled in the participating preschool
  8. * Child primary caregiver must have at least one child 2.5-5 years old that is enrolled in the preschool
  9. * Child primary care giver must be able to read and write in English or Spanish
  1. * Have less than 20 preschool aged children (2.5-5 years old) enrolled.
  2. * Do not have a preschool classroom
  3. * Are not in the CCRC network
  4. * Preschools that are based in a family-home or serve special needs children exclusively
  5. * Children do not eat at least one meal on-site per school day
  6. * Child primary care giver unable to read or write in English or Spanish
  7. * Primary care giver who does not have a child currently enrolled in a preschool class

Contacts and Locations

Principal Investigator

Roshan Bastani, PhD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of California, Los Angeles

Study Locations (Sites)

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Los Angeles, California, 90095
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

  • Roshan Bastani, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of California, Los Angeles

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2019-10-01
Study Completion Date2024-05-31

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2019-10-01
Study Completion Date2024-05-31

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • obesity
  • nutrition
  • physical activity
  • preschool
  • child care centers
  • policy-system-environment intervention

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Obesity