- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00759746
Childhood Obesity Treatment: A Maintenance Approach (COMPASS)
February 20, 2017 updated by: Washington University School of Medicine
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of dose and content of an enhanced weight maintenance treatment on children's ability to maintain weight loss following a standard weight loss treatment.
Study Overview
Status
Completed
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Childhood Obesity (CO) prevalence in the United States has tripled in recent decades, and nearly 30% of children aged 6 to 11 are overweight or obese.
CO is a serious public health problem, and is associated with both immediate and long-term health problems (e.g., hypertension, type 2 diabetes, asthma) and psychosocial problems (e.g., social isolation, depression, eating disorder symptomatology).
Furthermore, CO is a significant risk factor for adult obesity with several prospective studies showing that, if untreated, about half of overweight grade-school children remain obese as adults.
Fortunately, children respond favorably to family-based behavioral weight loss treatment (FBT), the most well-established intervention for the treatment of overweight in children 7 to 12 years old.
Weight loss treatments for overweight children have been associated with significant physical and psychosocial health benefits; however, despite initial success with lifestyle interventions, considerable relapse often occurs once treatment ends.
Clearly, CO is a significant public health problem, and long-term maintenance of weight loss remains a priority to stem the increased costs to the individual and society.
Therefore, we propose to conduct a multi-site randomized controlled trial with overweight children (N=241) and their parents (N=241) [for a total N=482].
All participants will complete 4 months of FBT and then be randomized to one of three, 8-month maintenance conditions: (1) Weight Maintenance Therapy, who will receive SFM - Low Dose [LOW] (16 sessions over 8 months), (2) Intensive Weight Maintenance Therapy, who will receive SFM - High Dose [HIGH] (32 sessions over 8 months), or (3) Current Standard of Care, who will receive Weight Maintenance Education (16 sessions over 8 months).
Relative weight and associated outcomes will be assessed at 0 (pre-weight loss), 4 (post-weight loss), 12 (post-maintenance treatment),18 months and 24 months.
Additionally, brief assessments will be conducted at four points during the course of maintenance treatment to measure presumed mediators.
Study Type
Interventional
Enrollment (Actual)
482
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.
Study Locations
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Missouri
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
- Washington University School of Medicine
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Washington
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Seattle, Washington, United States, 98121
- Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute
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Participation Criteria
Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
7 years to 11 years (Child)
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Children will be between the ages of 7 and 11 and at or above the 85th percentile for weight.
- At least one parent of the participating child must be overweight (BMI ≥ 25).
- One parent must agree to attend all parent/child treatment meetings as the participating parent.
- Participants must be able to speak and comprehend English.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participating parent or child having a thought disorder, suicidality, bipolar disorder, or drug or alcohol dependence.
- Participating parent or child having a physical disability or illness that prevents performance of physical activity at level equivalent to a brisk walk or that places severe restriction on diet.
- Participating parent or child being on a medication regimen that affects weight.
- Participating parent or child being involved in active psychiatric treatment for an ongoing problem that causes either social or occupational impairment.
- Parents (participating and nonparticipating) and children having an eating disorder (i.e., anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder) or having subclinical levels of eating disturbance (i.e., reporting key eating disorder behaviors of purging, fasting, or binge eating more than two times per month).
Study Plan
This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Weight Maintenance Education
Participants assigned to this group will receive the Weight Maintenance Education intervention.
They will meet every other week during the maintenance phase of the study for a total of 16 sessions over 8 months.
During the visit, participants will participate in a series of interactive workshops within child and parent groups to learn general information about healthy eating and physical activity.
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The Weight Maintenance Education intervention will help participants in parent and child groups to learn more about healthy eating and physical activity in a group setting.
Participants will also learn about exercise and exercise safety, hydration during exercise, and stress management.
Parent and child groups will combine for particular on-site and off-site activities, such as cooking demonstrations, grocery store tours, gym tours, and dance lessons.
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Experimental: SFM+ Low Dose
Participants assigned to this group will receive the SFM+ Low Dose.
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The SFM intervention assumes people need a social environment that supports changes in eating and physical activity for continued weight maintenance.
Therefore, the SFM intervention will focus on helping families create a social environment that supports weight maintenance (e.g., children being friends with physically active peers).
Participants in this group will meet less often than families that receive the Social Facilitation Maintenance (SFM) - High Dose intervention, giving them more opportunities to practice new skills between clinic visits.
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Experimental: SFM+ High Dose
Participants assigned to this group will receive the SFM+ High Dose.
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The SFM intervention assumes people need a social environment that supports changes in eating and physical activity for continued weight maintenance.
Therefore, the SFM intervention will focus on helping families create a social environment that supports weight maintenance (e.g., children being friends with physically active peers).
Participants in this group will meet more often than families that receive the Social Facilitation Maintenance (SFM) - Low Dose intervention, allowing for more in-depth discussion and practice of key skills and concepts related to creating a social environment that supports a healthy lifestyle.
These participants will receive more feedback and reinforcement from fellow group members, family interventionists, and group leaders for practicing their new behaviors.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Child percent overweight
Time Frame: 1 year
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1 year
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Collaborators and Investigators
This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Brian Saelens, Ph.D., Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute
Publications and helpful links
The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.
General Publications
- Hayes JF, Altman M, Kolko RP, Balantekin KN, Holland JC, Stein RI, Saelens BE, Welch RR, Perri MG, Schechtman KB, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Decreasing food fussiness in children with obesity leads to greater weight loss in family-based treatment. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Oct;24(10):2158-63. doi: 10.1002/oby.21622. Epub 2016 Sep 7.
- Altman M, Cahill Holland J, Lundeen D, Kolko RP, Stein RI, Saelens BE, Welch RR, Perri MG, Schechtman KB, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Reduction in food away from home is associated with improved child relative weight and body composition outcomes and this relation is mediated by changes in diet quality. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2015 Sep;115(9):1400-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2015.03.009. Epub 2015 May 8.
- Holland JC, Kolko RP, Stein RI, Welch RR, Perri MG, Schechtman KB, Saelens BE, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Modifications in parent feeding practices and child diet during family-based behavioral treatment improve child zBMI. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 May;22(5):E119-26. doi: 10.1002/oby.20708. Epub 2014 Mar 25.
- Best JR, Theim KR, Gredysa DM, Stein RI, Welch RR, Saelens BE, Perri MG, Schechtman KB, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Behavioral economic predictors of overweight children's weight loss. J Consult Clin Psychol. 2012 Dec;80(6):1086-1096. doi: 10.1037/a0029827. Epub 2012 Aug 27.
- Fowler LA, Litt MD, Rotman SA, Conlon RPK, Jakubiak J, Stein RI, Balantekin KN, Welch RR, Perri MG, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Relation of social network support to child health behaviors among children in treatment for overweight/obesity. Eat Weight Disord. 2022 Jun;27(5):1669-1678. doi: 10.1007/s40519-021-01303-4. Epub 2021 Sep 21.
- Grammer AC, Best JR, Fowler LA, Balantekin KN, Stein RI, Conlon RPK, Saelens BE, Welch RR, Perri MG, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. General and Eating Disorder Psychopathology in Relation to Short- and Long-Term Weight Change in Treatment-Seeking Children: A Latent Profile Analysis. Ann Behav Med. 2021 Jun 28;55(7):698-704. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaaa076.
- Fowler LA, Grammer AC, Ray MK, Balantekin KN, Stein RI, Kolko Conlon RP, Welch RR, Perri MG, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Examining the interdependence of parent-child dyads: Effects on weight loss and maintenance. Pediatr Obes. 2021 Jan;16(1):e12697. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12697. Epub 2020 Jul 28.
- Rotman SA, Fowler LA, Ray MK, Stein RI, Hayes JF, Kolko RP, Balantekin KN, Engel A, Saelens BE, Welch RR, Perri MG, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Family Encouragement of Healthy Eating Predicts Child Dietary Intake and Weight Loss in Family-Based Behavioral Weight-Loss Treatment. Child Obes. 2020 Apr;16(3):218-225. doi: 10.1089/chi.2019.0119. Epub 2019 Dec 12.
- Wilfley DE, Saelens BE, Stein RI, Best JR, Kolko RP, Schechtman KB, Wallendorf M, Welch RR, Perri MG, Epstein LH. Dose, Content, and Mediators of Family-Based Treatment for Childhood Obesity: A Multisite Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Dec 1;171(12):1151-1159. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.2960.
- Balantekin KN, Hayes JF, Sheinbein DH, Kolko RP, Stein RI, Saelens BE, Hurst KT, Welch RR, Perri MG, Schechtman KB, Epstein LH, Wilfley DE. Patterns of Eating Disorder Pathology are Associated with Weight Change in Family-Based Behavioral Obesity Treatment. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017 Dec;25(12):2115-2122. doi: 10.1002/oby.22028. Epub 2017 Oct 6.
Study record dates
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Study Major Dates
Study Start
October 1, 2009
Primary Completion (Actual)
March 1, 2013
Study Completion (Actual)
March 1, 2013
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
September 23, 2008
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
September 24, 2008
First Posted (Estimate)
September 25, 2008
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
February 23, 2017
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
February 20, 2017
Last Verified
February 1, 2017
More Information
Terms related to this study
Keywords
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 201107083
- 2R01HD036904 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
No
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