Scaling up Building Healthy Families
Part of Hormones & metabolism clinical trials.
This trial tests a program called Building Healthy Families to help prevent and treat childhood obesity. It looks at how well communities can adopt and run this program, especially in rural or low-resource areas.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- Your community must be willing to be randomly assigned to either run the program now or later.
- Your community must form a team of local people to help put the program into action.
- Your organization must apply and be chosen through a competitive application process.
- Adults on the community team must be 18 or older and work for or with a chosen organization.
- Your family must have a child between 5 and 13 years old with a BMI at or above the 85th percentile.
- One parent or caregiver must agree to attend program sessions with the child.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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