Family-Based Nutrition Intervention to Prevent Overweight and Obesity in School-Age Children.

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age5-9
SponsorClaudia Teresa Tovar Palacio

About this trial

This proposal aims to enhance the well being of schoolchildren and their families through a mobile application and multidisciplinary intervention model grounded in authoritative parenting principles and social cognitive theory.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Families of children between 5 and 9 years old.

Children without any medical or nutritional treatment for obesity.

Children classified as normal weight, overweight, or obese based on WHO (Z-score: height for age and BMI for age).

Offspring of mothers aged between 18 and 45 years at delivery.

Disqualifiers

Children who are currently suffering from a pathology that requires medication or special treatment

Mothers/Fathers/Guardians who are currently suffering from a pathology that requires medication or special treatment.

Children who have a physical/mental impairment to perform physical activities.

Children from surrogate mothers who have presented at least 2 of the 11 DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorder (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, or other illegal drugs) before or during the participating child's gestation.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • School B
  • Control

Treatment groups

40 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Claudia Teresa Tovar Palacio

Lead sponsor

Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran

Sponsor institution

Fundación Gonzalo Río Arronte

Collaborator

Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genomica

Collaborator

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Collaborator

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Collaborator