iAmHealthy Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG)
Implementation of the New Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline in Rural Families and Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial
University of Kansas Medical Center
1,024 participants
Sep 6, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The current study is a multilevel factorial design RCT with interventions at the clinic (Healthy Clinic intervention period vs. Control period) and individual patient levels (iAmHealthy vs. Newsletter).
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria7
- Child is ages 6-11 years at consent
- Child BMI %ile is ≥85th
- Child lives in a rural area
- Child/family speaks English or Spanish
- History of collaboration with site awardee in research or quality improvement projects
- In the past year at least 300 eligible potential participants
- The clinic must have an electronic medical records system
Exclusion Criteria6
- Child has a physical limitation or injury that substantially limits physical mobility or has a planned medical treatment during the course of the trial that will substantially limit physical mobility
- Child has a known medical issue that could affect protocol compliance (e.g., cancer)
- Child and/or primary caregiver has a developmental delay or cognitive impairment that could affect protocol compliance
- Child is enrolled in a weight-loss trial
- Child has a sibling who has already consented in the trial
- Unable to generate lists of children seen in clinic by date of visit, age, and zip code
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Interventions
Families will take part in an educational group program with parents and their children. These one-hour meetings will be focused on living healthy lifestyles and engaging in healthy habits as a family and will occur weekly for three months and monthly for three months. Each family will also have the opportunity to receive individual health coaching sessions every other week that will last approximately 30 minutes to address concerns and health behaviors specific to each pair. There will be additional opportunities to demonstrate and apply learned concepts.
Families assigned to the newsletter control intervention will receive the AAP Healthy Children Newsletter (HealthyChildren.org) every month for six months.
Healthy Clinics is a clinic level intervention designed to improve provider office processes using a bundled intervention of provider prompts, skills training and intervention tools implemented with performance feedback. Each clinic receives Healthy Clinics at some point in the intervention.
Locations(4)
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NCT06888011