Healthy Together Program Evaluation (Phase 3)

NCT ID: NCT03550248

Last Updated: 2020-10-29

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

3400 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-03-01

Study Completion Date

2020-03-30

Brief Summary

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Healthy Together is a program that promotes the achievement and maintenance of healthy weights in children and their families.

Detailed Description

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The purpose of the Phase 3 scale up project is to expand the reach and impact of Healthy Together (HT), by supporting the integration of the HT program into core services of organizations serving children (up to 18 years) and families, particularly those from under-served populations across diverse communities and settings in Canada. The HT program offers a flexible, effective, integrated approach, relevant to multiple contexts, creating potential to become a sustainable approach to promoting healthier weights in Canadian children. The objectives of the evaluation for Phase 3 are to:

1. Describe the effectiveness of the HT program in relation to knowledge, attitude and behavior change at the individual, family, and community level.
2. Monitor quality and sustainability of HT, when offered as part of core service by organizations to meet diverse community needs and cultural contexts.
3. Create an effective knowledge mobilization framework to increase practice and policy influence of HT, in collaboration with regional, provincial and national networks.

Conditions

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Overweight and Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Participating organizations will deliver the Healthy Together (HT) program to children/youth and their parents/caregivers. Participants in the program will be invited to complete questionnaires to evaluate the program at mid point (after 15 sessions) and post program (after 30 sessions).
Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intervention group

Participants will receive the intervention - Healthy Together (HT).

Group Type OTHER

Healthy Together

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The Healthy Together (HT) program is designed to reduce overweight and obesity among children and youth in priority populations such as Indigenous, immigrant and refugee, and low income families.The HT program consists of 30 sessions, each of which includes cooking and eating together, physical activity and a learning activity covering topics that promote healthy weights. The HT program is delivered by trained facilitators who are provided with a program manual and resources. Trained facilitators in participating community organizations offer the HT program by integrating it within core programming.

Interventions

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Healthy Together

The Healthy Together (HT) program is designed to reduce overweight and obesity among children and youth in priority populations such as Indigenous, immigrant and refugee, and low income families.The HT program consists of 30 sessions, each of which includes cooking and eating together, physical activity and a learning activity covering topics that promote healthy weights. The HT program is delivered by trained facilitators who are provided with a program manual and resources. Trained facilitators in participating community organizations offer the HT program by integrating it within core programming.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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Healthy Together Children's Health Program

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

Families: HT is designed for children (up to 18 years of age) and families. Children and families participating in programs offered by the partner organizations are eligible to attend HT. All interested families will be able to access the program regardless of their previous knowledge or skill level. Participants do not have to be overweight/obese to participate in sessions.

HT Facilitators: Staff members who are identified by the partner organizations, trained to implement the HT program and directly involved in HT program delivery will be eligible to participate in the evaluation.

Directors of Partner Organizations: Partner organizations will be asked to identify a director (supervisor) that has administrative responsibility for overseeing the delivery of services for children/families that includes the HT program.

National Advisory Committee (NAC): Members of the National Advisory Committee established by The Bridge Youth and Family Service Society for Phase 3 of this project.

Exclusion Criteria

Family members who have not participated in any of the HT sessions offered as part of on-going services provided by the partner organization.
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Bridge Youth and Family Services, Kelowna, BC, Canada

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of British Columbia

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Joan Bottorff

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Joan L Bottorff, PhD, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of British Columbia

Locations

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Bridge Youth and Family Services

Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Bottorff JL, Huisken A, Hopkins M, Nesmith C. A RE-AIM evaluation of Healthy Together: a family-centred program to support children's healthy weights. BMC Public Health. 2020 Nov 23;20(1):1754. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-09737-8.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 33225915 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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1415-HQ-000616.

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id