Study protocol for clinical trial of the FIT Families multicomponent obesity intervention for African American adolescents and their caregivers: Next step from the ORBIT initiative

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 14; no. 2; p. e074552
• Main Authors: Cunningham, Phillippe B, Naar, Sylvie, Roberts, James R, Powell, Jennifer, Ledgerwood, David M, Randall, Jeff, Lozano, Brian E, Halliday, Colleen A, Madisetti, Mohan, Ghosh, Samiran
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 13.02.2024; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Protocol
• Subjects: Adolescent; African Americans; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Black or African American; Body fat; Body mass index; Caregivers; Clinical Trial; Clinical trials; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive ability; Costs; Diabetes; Families & family life; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Intervention; Metabolic syndrome; Minority & ethnic groups; Obesity; Overweight; Paediatrics; Pediatric Obesity - prevention & control; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Skills; Teenagers; Weight control; United States > US; Clinical Trial; Clinical trials; Obesity

IntroductionThis study will test the effectiveness of FIT Families (FIT), a multicomponent family-based behavioural intervention, against a credible attention control condition, Home-Based Family Support (HBFS). This protocol paper describes the design of a randomised clinical trial testing the effi...