Motivational Wellness Coaching to Reduce Childhood Obesity in Families and Kids

Description

Primary care settings lack interventions to address the childhood obesity epidemic that are feasible and sustainable without requiring significant resources. The investigators propose to modify and test an intervention shown to lower children's body mass index(BMI) so that it is feasible, sustainable, and easily disseminated in a real-world clinical setting. If successful, the investigators will be able to provide recommendations to providers and health care systems that help prioritize future intervention strategies and research investments to reduce obesity in children that can be quickly translated into other settings and widely adopted after the study period, with the goal of halting and reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.

Conditions

Obesity

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Primary care settings lack interventions to address the childhood obesity epidemic that are feasible and sustainable without requiring significant resources. The investigators propose to modify and test an intervention shown to lower children's body mass index(BMI) so that it is feasible, sustainable, and easily disseminated in a real-world clinical setting. If successful, the investigators will be able to provide recommendations to providers and health care systems that help prioritize future intervention strategies and research investments to reduce obesity in children that can be quickly translated into other settings and widely adopted after the study period, with the goal of halting and reversing the childhood obesity epidemic.

Integrated Motivational Interviewing to Reduce Childhood Obesity in a Large Health Maintenance Organization

Motivational Wellness Coaching to Reduce Childhood Obesity in Families and Kids

Condition
Obesity
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Pasadena

Kaiser Permanente Pasadena, Pasadena, California, United States, 91101

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.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Children age 2-8 years
  • * Body mass index in the 85 percentile or higher

Ages Eligible for Study

2 Years to 8 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Kaiser Permanente,

Corinna Koebnick, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Kaiser Permanente

Study Record Dates

2026-06-30