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Families Becoming Healthy Together
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating FBT and FBT+Variety for Obesity and Childhood Obesity. Completed, enrolled 83 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The investigators plan to implement a novel limited RED (high-energy-dense) food variety prescription within a 18-month FBT to examine its effect on 18-month body mass index (BMI). This will be the first randomized control trial to examine how habituation rate, assessed via salivary habituation, mediates reduction in RED food intake, overall energy intake, and reductions in BMI over time, as well as if baseline habituation rate is a behavioral phenotype that moderates BMI outcomes. One hundred fifty-six children aged 8 to 12 years at \> 85th percentile BMI will be randomized to one of two, 18-month interventions compared in our 6-month pilot study: FBT (family-based behavioral obesity treatment) or FBT+Variety. Child and adult caregiver assessments will occur at 0, 6, 12, and 18 months on anthropometrics, dietary intake (RED food variety, energy, and diet quality), habituation, and physical activity.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
FBT will receive a family-based, behavioral intervention for childhood obesity, consisting of group meetings once a week for months 1 to 4, twice a month for months 5 to 6, once a month for months 7 to 12, and once every two months for months 13 to 18 (29 sessions). For all meetings, the child and adult caregiver will be weighed and be provided with feedback, homework will be reviewed, and a behavioral lesson will be presented. At the 60-min meetings, the child and adult will attend separate 40 min group meetings, and then for the last 20 min of the meetings they will meet together with an individual therapist to address specific family-issues by developing behavioral action plans. No goals on variety in RED foods will be provided.
This condition is FBT with a limited variety prescription. The limited variety prescription reduces the number of different RED foods consumed.