Addressing the Social Needs of Children With Obesity

NCT ID: NCT04711707

Last Updated: 2021-04-28

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-01-25

Study Completion Date

2021-12-31

Brief Summary

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This study aims to improve the treatment of a common, chronic health concern for children: obesity. It has the potential to improve the care we provide by testing an intervention that addresses social needs and the important upstream factors that influences health outcomes.

Detailed Description

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Addressing the social needs of children attending a weight management program. The specific aims of this pilot randomized controlled trial are the following:

1. To determine the feasibility of implementation and delivery of a screening-referral intervention versus usual care to address social needs of children with obesity enrolled in a pediatric weight management program at McMaster Children's Hospital, which will include recruitment rates, uptake of the intervention, and follow-up of participants.
2. To understand impact on health outcomes of a screening-referral intervention versus usual care to address social needs of children with obesity enrolled in a pediatric weight management program including change in i) body mass index z score (zBMI); ii) change in body composition; and iii) change in health-related quality of life.

Hypothesis: We hypothesize that health outcomes of children with obesity are connected to the social determinants of health, and that an intervention which screens for and refers to community supports will improve child obesity outcomes.

Conditions

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Obesity, Childhood

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Participants who screen positive for social needs will be randomized to receive one of two possible interventions. An allocation ratio of 1:1 with random permuted blocks of varying size will be used. Random block size will help to ensure that investigators or outcome assessors will not be able to decipher the block size and anticipate future allocations. Allocation concealment is the process that prevents any trial participant or investigator from knowing in advance the treatment to which subjects will be assigned and seeks to prevent selection bias.
Primary Study Purpose

SCREENING

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors
Data analysts will be blind to the group allocation. Group allocation will be concealed until the final data analysis is performed. Families, research staff and clinical staff will not be blinded to the group allocation.

Study Groups

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Community navigator

This group is guided through the resources and provided bi-monthly support with a community navigator

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Community navigator

Intervention Type OTHER

All patients who consent to participate in the study will complete a pediatric social history tool to identify social needs. The intervention group will receive support through a community navigator to guide and understand appropriate services for their specific needs. This arm will receive guidance and bimonthly check-ins.

Self-Navigation

This group receives the social needs resources to self-navigation

Group Type OTHER

Self-Navigation

Intervention Type OTHER

The control group will receive an electronic or paper copy of community resources that address the identified social needs.

Interventions

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Community navigator

All patients who consent to participate in the study will complete a pediatric social history tool to identify social needs. The intervention group will receive support through a community navigator to guide and understand appropriate services for their specific needs. This arm will receive guidance and bimonthly check-ins.

Intervention Type OTHER

Self-Navigation

The control group will receive an electronic or paper copy of community resources that address the identified social needs.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Enrollment in the weight management program

Exclusion Criteria

* Children in the care of child protection services and/or living in group or foster care. Children in these settings will not be living within typical family-systems to have social needs addressed by this intervention.
* Parents who cannot read and write in English
Minimum Eligible Age

2 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Gita Wahi, MD, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McMaster Children's Hospital

Locations

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Kimberley Krasevich

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Canada

Central Contacts

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Gita Wahi, MD, MSc

Role: CONTACT

905-521-2100

Facility Contacts

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Kimberley Krasevich, BSc,BEd

Role: primary

9055212100 ext. 73517

Wahi Gita, MD,MSc

Role: backup

9055212100

References

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Reference Type DERIVED
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Related Links

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http://www.who.int/social_determinants/sdh_definition/en/

The World Health Organization's Department of Social Determinants of Health webpage. It provides information about the social, physical and economic conditions in society that impact upon health.

http://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/data-and-analysis/health-equity/ontario-marginalization-index

Produced by Public Health Ontario, tt provides access to the Ontario Marginalization Index (ON-MARG). ON-MARG is a multifaceted index which measures axes of deprivation in Ontario, including economic, ethno-racial, age based and social.

http://211ontario.ca/

Access to an electronic database of Ontario's government and community based social services.

Other Identifiers

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12697

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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