An overview of the Families Improving Together (FIT) for weight loss randomized controlled trial in African American families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Families Improving Together (FIT) randomized controlled trial tests the efficacy of integrating cultural tailoring, positive parenting, and motivational strategies into a comprehensive curriculum for weight loss in African American adolescents. The overall goal of the FIT trial is to test the effects of an integrated intervention curriculum and the added effects of a tailored web-based intervention on reducing z-BMI in overweight African American adolescents.

Design and setting

The FIT trial is a randomized group cohort design the will involve 520 African American families with an overweight adolescent between the ages of 11-16 years. The trial tests the efficacy of an 8-week face-to-face group randomized program comparing M + FWL (Motivational Plus Family Wei

SUBMITTER: Wilson DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4450135 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature