Cancer Center studies a peer and family-based approach to Obesity in African American Families
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M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is conducting the clinical trial of Parent and Family Oriented Support Interventions for the Facilitation of Weight Loss in African American Families.
This study tests the effectiveness of parent and family oriented support interventions that are designed to help with weight loss among African American families. Obesity tends to run in families, thus family based interventions, with parents as main change agents have been strongly recommended. The parent and family oriented support Interventions may help facilitate weight loss among African American families.
The primary objectives:
- Determine whether a parent/caregiver intervention or a family intervention can produce greater weight loss among obese African American (AA) parents at 12 months compared to a cancer prevention group (control).
- Use the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) model, to evaluate individual and church-level barriers and facilitators on program reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance and dissemination.
It is planned to include 1632 participants.
Actual study start date is January 17, 2019. The researchers expect to complete the study by January 1, 2023.
Among the exclusion criteria are:
- Parent or caregiver are currently pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant during the study period.
- Parent or caregiver present any contraindications for exercise based on responses to the PA Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q).
The location of the study is as follows (further details can be found here https://ichgcp.net/clinical-trials-registry/NCT04644224) Houston, United States.
