Study: Telehealth Intervention for Childhood Obesity

This is a single-blind, cluster randomized controlled feasibility trial that focused on theory-driven, family-based, rurally-tailored, four-month-long telehealth intervention aimed at sustainable behavioral changes that reduced overweight and obesity among 5 to 11-year-old children in Orange County. Body mass index reduction, nutrition education, and increases in physical activity, sleep, and social functioning were the desired outcomes for children involved in the study. The theory of Planned Behavior was utilized to assess parent outcomes. Neighborhoods were assigned to telehealth intervention or active attention wait-list control. When the control group received the intervention, the group that completed the intervention was followed up with for the sustainability of outcomes.