Shape Up Somerville: Eat Smart Play Hard

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

3000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2002-11-30

Study Completion Date

2005-06-30

Brief Summary

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Community-based environmental approach to obesity prevention targeting first, second, and third grade students in Somerville, MA.

Detailed Description

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This study will demonstrate using measures of effectiveness, the feasibility of partnering with the community to create, disseminate, implement and evaluate Shape Up Somerville: Eat Smart. Play Hard., a community-based environmental change intervention to prevent obesity in culturally diverse, high-risk, early elementary school children. Based on formative work with parents, children, teachers, school food service, school officials, and community members, a community-wide campaign will be developed with targeted environmental change strategies for early elementary school children within the before-, during-, and after-school environments reinforced by changes within the home and community to support behavioral action and maintenance. The intervention targeting children will bring the energy equation into balance by offering numerous physical activity options that total up to 125 kcals per day and by improving the composition of the food served and the dietary options, particularly snack foods, available throughout the day. This study will measure awareness and participation of the partners and residents within the community. In addition the temporal change in BMI z-score will be monitored internally in 700 Somerville children and externally in 1000 control children from 2 demographically-matched communities for one year and will be compared to the change in BMI z-score in children participating in Shape Up Somerville with children from control communities over the one-year intervention and for one year of follow up. If successful, Somerville will serve as the model community that paves the way for cost-effective nationwide environmental action to prevent obesity at the community level.

Conditions

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Childhood Obesity

Keywords

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Childhood Obesity Community-based Participatory Research School intervention Parental Involvement

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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Nurtition and Physical Activity Education

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Public school students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade in Somerville, MA

Exclusion Criteria

* none

Minimum Eligible Age

5 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

11 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Principal Investigators

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Christina D. Economos, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Tufts University

Locations

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Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Folta SC, Kuder JF, Goldberg JP, Hyatt RR, Must A, Naumova EN, Nelson ME, Economos CD. Changes in diet and physical activity resulting from the Shape Up Somerville community intervention. BMC Pediatr. 2013 Oct 4;13:157. doi: 10.1186/1471-2431-13-157.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 24093936 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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R06 CCR 121519

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDC-OPHR-121519