STOMP Early Years: A Pilot RCT of an Intensive, Family-Centred, Home Visiting Intervention for Young Children With Severe Obesity (STOMP)

October 27, 2021 updated by: Catherine Birken, The Hospital for Sick Children

STOMP Early Years: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intensive, Family-Centred, Home Visiting Intervention for Young Children With Severe Obesity

This internal pilot study will determine whether a highly promising primary care based intervention that combines group based parenting skills training and public health nurse home visits with a focus on healthy nutrition, activity and sleep, will lead to improved weight status in 1 to 5 year old children with severe obesity.

Children with severe obesity will be identified through the obesity management clinical program at The Hospital for Sick Children called STOMP (SickKids Team Obesity Management Program). The STOMP Early Years Program is a unique and intensive, paediatric obesity management program designed for 1 to 5 year-olds with severe obesity and their families. Families who participate in this study will be randomly assigned (having an equal chance of being in either group) to one of the two study groups that will run for 6 months:

Group A: Ten weeks of group parenting education sessions with 2-4 public health nurse home visits and four one-on-one check-ins with an interdisciplinary team at STOMP.

Group B: Wait listed to receive parenting education sessions; receive one-on-one checks with an interdisciplinary team at STOMP.

In addition to the measures collected as part of STOMP, families will complete the following questionnaires before the start of the trial, and after 6 months:

Parenting Scale, Parenting Stress Index, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21), Cost Questionnaire, and Children's Behaviour Questionnaire (CBQ).

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

11

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

  • Canada
    • Ontario
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
        • The Hospital for Sick Children

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

1 year to 5 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Children with obesity and severe obesity (BMI ≥97th percentile) and at least one parent (primary caregiver), and families who are fluent in English (written and oral) will be eligible to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Children with diagnosed Prader-Willi syndrome; severe developmental delay; and families who reside beyond the Toronto Public Health catchment area for home visiting.

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: Single

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Parenting education sessions
Receive 10 weeks of group parenting education sessions with 2-4 public health nurse home visits.
Behavioral: Parenting education sessions
If assigned to the parenting education session group, families will start with the 10-week group parenting education sessions and 2-4 home visits immediately after being enrolled. During this time, they will also come in for four one-on-one check-ins with the STOMP team. Each check-in will be approximately 1 hour. At least one parent/caregiver will attend weekly parenting sessions which will take place at SickKids. The Toronto Public Health Nurse will arrange 2-4 home visits with the family during the 6 month period of the study. The home visits will focus on helping to apply the messages and skills from the group sessions in their homes, and making connections in the neighbourhood to recreational or nutrition programs or other supports for the family.
No Intervention: Control
Attend one-on-one check-ins with the interdisciplinary team at STOMP; wait-listed control group.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
zBMI
Time Frame: 6 months post-intervention
Measure the difference in age and sex-standardized BMI z-score (zBMI)
6 months post-intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Mental health
Time Frame: 6 months post-intervention
Assess mental health by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
6 months post-intervention
Eating behaviour and dietary intake
Time Frame: 6 months post-intervention
Assess eating behaviour and dietary intake using the Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler (NutriSTEP)
6 months post-intervention

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Parent report focus group
Time Frame: 6 months post-intervention
focus group of eligible parents around feasibility and acceptability of the planned intervention
6 months post-intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

The Hospital for Sick Children

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

October 1, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2019

Study Completion (Actual)

November 1, 2019

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 27, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 14, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

July 17, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

November 1, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 27, 2021

Last Verified

October 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1000054922

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

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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