ArticleBMC pediatrics2020
Rationale and design of "Hearts & Parks": study protocol for a pragmatic randomized clinical trial of an integrated clinic-community intervention to treat pediatric obesity.
Article in BMC pediatrics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03339440 (A Randomized Trial of an Integrated Clinic-community Intervention in Children and Adolescents With Obesity), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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A Randomized Trial of an Integrated Clinic-community Intervention in Children and Adolescents With Obesity
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Branched chain amino acid metabolism and microbiome in adolescents with obesity during weight loss therapy.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Observational
- Effects of multidisciplinary therapy on energy balance, inflammation, and metabolic diseases in adolescents with obesity: A narrative review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2024Review
- Physical activity and sleep changes among children during the COVID-19 pandemic.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- American Heart Association's Children's Strategically Focused Research Network Experience.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Translating knowledge into action for child obesity treatment in partnership with Parks and Recreation: study protocol for a hybrid type II trial.Implementation science : IS · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe prevalence of child and adolescent obesity and severe obesity continues to increase despite decades of policy and research aimed at prevention. Obesity strongly predicts cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk; both begin in childhood. Children who receive intensive behavioral interventions can reduce body mass index (BMI) and reverse disease risk. However, delivering these interventions with fidelity at scale remains a challenge. Clinic-community partnerships offer a promising strategy to provide high-quality clinical care and deliver behavioral treatment in local park and recreation settings. The Hearts & Parks study has three broad objectives: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the clinic-community model for the treatment of child obesity, (2) define microbiome and metabolomic signatures of obesity and response to lifestyle change, and (3) inform the implementation of similar models in clinical systems.
methodsMethods are designed for a pragmatic randomized, controlled clinical trial (n = 270) to test the effectiveness of an integrated clinic-community child obesity intervention as compared with usual care. We are powered to detect a difference in body mass index (BMI) between groups at 6 months, with follow up to 12 months. Secondary outcomes include changes in biomarkers for cardiovascular disease, psychosocial risk, and quality of life. Through collection of biospecimens (serum and stool), additional exploratory outcomes include microbiome and metabolomics biomarkers of response to lifestyle modification. DISCUSSION: We present the study design, enrollment strategy, and intervention details for a randomized clinical trial to measure the effectiveness of a clinic-community child obesity treatment intervention. This study will inform a critical area in child obesity and cardiovascular risk research-defining outcomes, implementation feasibility, and identifying potential molecular mechanisms of treatment response. CLINICAL
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