Evaluation of Child Care Staff Weight Management Program

Conditions

• Obesity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

2 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• Go NAPSACC Enhanced — BEHAVIORAL
  Centers will receive the Go NAPSACC program as well as an online weight management intervention that focuses on personal weight management strategies. Participants will have access to materials that will support their adoption of evidence-based strategies for their weight management or loss goal. Behavior change strategies used are meant to increase intervention adherence and improve weight loss.
• Go NAPSACC — BEHAVIORAL
  Go NAPSACC is an online evidence-based behavioral intervention that supports centers as they adopt center-wide healthy weight practices. It anticipates producing change in the child care environment through fostering best practices in center provisions, practices, policies, and professional development around child nutrition and physical activity and in turn foster healthier habits in the children in their care.

Study Details

The goal of this 12-month cluster clinical trial is to evaluate if improving child care providers' health behaviors using an online provider weight management program elicits meaningful change in dietary and physical activity behaviors in 2-5-year-old preschool children in their care and the child care environment. The study sample will include 84 child care centers. Including: 84 center directors, 168 2-5-year-old classroom teachers, 672 2-5-year old children. Some centers will do only the online Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (Go NAPSACC) program. This program works with child care center directors to make changes to their center around child nutrition and physical activity to foster healthier habits for the children enrolled in their care. Other centers will do Go NAPSACC Enhanced. This will include center directors doing Go NAPSACC and 2-5 year old teachers doing an online weight management program with support. Researchers will compare centers in Go NAPSACC with centers in Go NAPSACC Enhanced to see if there are greater improvements in children's diet quality and physical activity, as well as the nutrition and physical activity environment of centers in the Go NAPSACC Enhanced group. Additionally, they will see if there are greater improvements in teachers' weight, diet quality, and physical activity in centers using Go NAPSACC Enhanced.

Key Dates

Start date

Jan 18, 2023

Status verified

Mar 2026

Primary completion

Nov 30, 2026

Completion

May 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

924 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Active Comparator: Go NAPSACC
  Centers randomized to Go NAPSACC will receive the traditional Go NAPSACC program. This will include the center director leading the Go NAPSACC effort with support from a Go NAPSACC Implementation advisor. The advisor will orient each center to Go NAPSACC and its online tools and check in monthly with directors as they work through 2 cycles of Go NAPSACC over 6 months. Centers will take self-assessments on nutrition and physical activity, choose 6 goals (3 from each), create action plans, and take action to achieve their chosen goals.
• Experimental: Go NAPSACC Enhanced
  Centers randomized to Go NAPSACC Enhanced will receive the traditional Go NAPSACC program as described in the Active Comparator arm. Additionally, child care providers will simultaneously receive a weight management program, Go NAPSACC Cares over 6 months. The health educator will orient providers with the website and its tools and resources. Providers will take a self-assessment and choose a goal of weight maintenance or weight loss. They will go through 18 lessons with accompanying resources. Within the website they will self-monitor their weight, physical activity, and red foods (diet quality). Providers will receive daily tips, weekly reminders via text message or email, and tailored weekly feedback based on their weight management goals and progress.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in Children's Diet Quality at Child Care from Baseline to 6 months [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6 months post-intervention ]

Central Contacts

• Regan V Burney, PhD
  336-971-7459
  [email protected]
• Erik Willis, PhD
  704-541-4951
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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