Connect for Health: Design of a clinical-community childhood obesity intervention testing best practices of positive outliers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Connect for Health study is designed to assess whether a novel approach to care delivery that leverages clinical and community resources and addresses socio-contextual factors will improve body mass index (BMI) and family-centered, obesity-related outcomes of interest to parents and children. The intervention is informed by clinical, community, parent, and youth stakeholders and incorporates successful strategies and best practices learned from 'positive outlier' families, i.e., those who have succeeded in changing their health behaviors and improve their BMI in the context of adverse built and social environments.

Design

Two-arm, randomized controlled trial with measures at baseline and 12 months after randomization.

Participants

2-12 year old children

SUBMITTER: Taveras EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4753774 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature