A Gardening Program to Assess Unhealthy Lifestyle Contributions to Summer Weight Gain in Children

NCT ID: NCT00974727

Last Updated: 2015-10-05

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

12 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-05-31

Study Completion Date

2009-08-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a summer gardening program on summer weight gain in overweight middle school children.

Detailed Description

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In the past two decades, the combination of unhealthy eating and physical inactivity has contributed to doubling the percentage of children and adolescents who are overweight. Childhood overweight is known to lead to increased risk for several morbidities in childhood and into adulthood including type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. Recent data shows that children experience greater and more variable increases in BMI during summer vacation than during the school year. Our project aims to determine whether summer weight gain is due to a decrease in physical activity or an increase in daily calories as well as to assess the effectiveness of a summer gardening program on preventing summer body fat gain. We will randomize 40 middle-school children who are above the 95th percentile for BMI into either a control or intervention group. The control group will receive the standard of care and the intervention group will participate in Garden Fit, a summer gardening project at Troy Gardens in Madison, WI. As part of Garden Fit, subjects will participate in weeding, landscaping and trail maintenance activities as well as preparing meals twice a week with fresh foods from the gardens. We hypothesize that summer weight gain is due to a worsening of healthy lifestyle (decreased physical activity from school to summer and increased eating of high calorie snacks). Additionally, we hypothesize that an intervention that increases physical activity and provides increased access to healthy foods will reduce the trend of summer BMI increase.

Conditions

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Overweight

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Gardening Program

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Garden Fit

Intervention Type OTHER

8-week summer gardening program. 9am-12pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 9am-12:30pm on Tuesday and Thursday. Activities included gardening (preparing soil for planting, planting seeds and seedlings, mulching, weeding, watering, and harvesting), preparing meals with fresh foods from the garden, and other garden activities and games.

Control

Subjects received the standard of care for the summer.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Garden Fit

8-week summer gardening program. 9am-12pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and 9am-12:30pm on Tuesday and Thursday. Activities included gardening (preparing soil for planting, planting seeds and seedlings, mulching, weeding, watering, and harvesting), preparing meals with fresh foods from the garden, and other garden activities and games.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Garden Fit 2009

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Middle school child aged 10-14 years
* BMI at or above the 85th percentile for height and weight
* Able to attend 8-week summer program and clinic visits

Exclusion Criteria

* Any known metabolic disorder
* Any physical disability that prevents or limits physical activity
* Claustrophobia
Minimum Eligible Age

10 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

14 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Wisconsin, Madison

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Dale Schoeller, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Wisconsin, Department of Nutritional Sciences

Locations

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University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Other Identifiers

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MSN106189

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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