Trial reportBMC medical research methodology2022
Validation of remote height and weight assessment in a rural randomized clinical trial.
Trial report in BMC medical research methodology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03304249 (Rural Disparities in Pediatric Obesity), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers.
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Rural Disparities in Pediatric Obesity: The iAmHealthy Intervention
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mental health outcomes of a pediatric-focused obesity randomized control trial in rural communities.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Trial
- Effectiveness of a paediatric weight management intervention for rural youth (iAmHealthy): Primary outcomes of a cluster randomised control trial.Pediatric obesity · 2024Trial
- Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia.Population health metrics · 2024Trial
- Validation of remote anthropometric measurements in a rural randomized pediatric clinical trial in primary care settings.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Remote Assessment of Pediatric Anthropometrics.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- Use of telehealth for measurement of anthropometrics in toddlers and their parents.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Best Practices and Recommendations for Research Using Virtual Real-Time Data Collection: Protocol for Virtual Data Collection Studies.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Validation of remote child weight and height measurements within a weight management trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2024Article
- Agreement between parent-report and EMR height, weight, and BMI among rural children.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of this study is to describe and assess a remote height and weight protocol that was developed for an ongoing trial conducted during the SARS COV-2 pandemic.
methodsThirty-eight rural families (children 8.3 ± 0.7 years; 68% female; and caregivers 38.2 ± 6.1 years) were provided detailed instructions on how to measure height and weight. Families obtained measures via remote data collection (caregiver weight, child height and weight) and also by trained staff. Differences between data collection methods were examined.
resultsPer absolute mean difference analyses, slightly larger differences were found for child weight (0.21 ± 0.21 kg), child height (1.53 ± 1.29 cm), and caregiver weight (0.48 ± 0.42 kg) between school and home measurements. Both analyses indicate differences had only minor impact on child BMI percentile (- 0.12, 0.68) and parent BMI (0.05, 0.13). Intraclass coefficients ranged from 0.98 to 1.00 indicating that almost all of the variance was due to between person differences and not measurement differences within a person.
conclusionResults suggest that remote height and weight collection is feasible for caregivers and children and that there are minimal differences in the various measurement methods studied here when assessing group differences. These differences did not have clinically meaningful impacts on BMI. This is promising for the use of remote height and weight measurement in clinical trials, especially for hard-to reach-populations.
trial registrationClinical. Registered in clinicaltrials.gov ( NCT03304249 ) on 06/10/2017.
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