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CompletedNCT03469752Updated Aug 20, 2021

Latino Fathers Promoting Healthy Youth Behaviors

An interventional study of Parent education classes in Diet Modification, Physical Activity and Parenting, sponsored by University of Minnesota. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 10 Years to 14 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-08-20.

Primary conditionPediatric ObesityRegistry: Motor ActivityReclassifiedWhy we changed it
Registry
Motor Activity — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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Pediatric Obesity
Why
  1. Motor Activity is a broad heading, used only when no more specific condition is named.
  2. The study's listed conditions name Pediatric Obesity.
Confidence
High: the new condition is named in the study's own listed conditions. Of 351 hand-checked studies reclassified this way, 68% were exactly right and 84% in the right disease family; the registry's first term was right for 5% (measured 2026-10-21). How we classify →
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Sponsored by University of Minnesota · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 2 years after the study started (first participant enrolled Mar 2016, registered Mar 2018).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
480
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
10 Years to 14 Years
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-12

Among 20 studies in Pediatric Obesity by University of Minnesota — 1 open to participants now, 1 under way, none of them phase 3. Pediatric Obesity · University of Minnesota.

Enrollment
3rd of 19
480 · median 80
Started
2016
with 2 others
No phase
11 of 20
none open now
Registered
7th of 20
by date

Among the 20 studies in Pediatric Obesity by University of Minnesota, this one is the 3rd largest by enrollment of the 19 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 3 that started in 2016, is one of 11 with no phase, and was the 7th registered.

Pediatric Obesity

1,129 studies on the registry are indexed under Pediatric Obesity; 187 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

1 of the 20 studies in Pediatric Obesity by University of Minnesota is open now, in 1 country. Recruiting first, the newest first:

By country, each count listing its studies:

Where they have run

Who these studies take

Of the 124 Pediatric Obesity studies recruiting now, 19 (15%) set no upper age limit and 103 (83%) stop at 75 or younger; 114 take children under 18; 69 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 10 Years to 14 Years · all sexes · healthy volunteers too.

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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Latino parent-focused education that combines enhancing parent engagement, building quality parent-child relationships, promoting healthy eating and physical activity, and engaging families with community resources for healthy foods on youth energy balance related behaviors and weight status.

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The Latino Parents Promoting Healthy Youth Behavior Project aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to prevent obesity among Latino youth (10-14 yrs) by engaging parents and their families in culturally and linguistically appropriate education. The goal of this project is to prevent overweight and obesity in Latino adolescents by increasing the frequency of positive paternal or maternal (or other caregiver) parenting practices related to the food and physical activity environment in the home (role modeling, availability, expectations, communication) which will improve weight status of children by improving energy balance related behaviors (EBRBs) - eating fruits and vegetables and limiting soft drink, sweets, salty snacks, and fast food consumption, limiting screen time and increasing physical activity).

Objective 1) To adapt, implement and evaluate efficacy of a curriculum specifically for Latino families, using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) that incorporates parenting education to increase frequency of parenting practices (role modeling, availability, expectations, communication) to improve EBRBs and weight status of youth.

Objective 2) To evaluate the efficacy of Latino parent-focused education that combines enhancing parent engagement, building quality parent-child relationships, promoting healthy eating and physical activity, and engaging families with community resources for healthy foods on youth EBRBs and weight status.

Formative research and planning will be completed in Years 1-2 including focus group interviews and consultation with community partners and a Parent Advisory Board. An existing 8-session course curriculum will be adapted. The adapted curriculum will be pilot-tested with a small group of parents and children in a single group, pre-post design, and revised as needed.

In years 2 to 4, a randomized-controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted based on full implementation of the adapted curriculum by collaborating agencies with the support of U of MN Extension. Training will be designed and implemented among community partner and U of MN Extension staff who will be implementing the program at local sites.

The RCT will be implemented at two organizations in each of years 2, 3 and 4 in a staggered fashion. In year 5, data will be analyzed, reports developed, papers written and submitted for publication, and results will be reported back to community collaborators (organizations and individuals).

Hypothesis:

  1. Compared to a delayed-treatment control group at immediate post-course and 3 months post-course, statistically significant changes will be observed in the home food and physical activity environment and frequency of related paternal and maternal parenting practices (making fruits, vegetables, and opportunities for physical activity more available and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), sweets, salty snacks, fast food and opportunities for sedentary behaviors less available; role modeling of positive EBRBs, setting expectations and rules related to improvements in EBRBs, and increased frequency of parent-youth communication regarding youth EBRBs).
  2. Compared to a delayed-treatment control group at immediate post-course and 3 months post-course, youth in the treatment group will have statistically significant improvements in EBRBs including increased fruit and vegetable intake, increased physical activity, lower intake of SSBs, sweets, salty snacks and fast food, decreased screen time/sedentary time, and stable weight status.
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Conditions studied

  • Diet Modification
  • Physical Activity
  • Parenting
  • Adolescent Obesity

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Keywords

  • Hispanic Latino families
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In context

Pediatric Obesity Reclassified

1,129 studies on the registry are indexed under Pediatric Obesity; 187 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 480 is above the median of 100 across 870 interventional studies indexed under Pediatric Obesity.

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Lead sponsor

University of Minnesota is the lead sponsor of 1,216 studies on the registry; 197 are open to participants now.

Of its 136 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 95 (70%) have results posted.

Compared within Pediatric Obesity, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Motor Activity. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
10 Years to 14 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Latino adolescent 10-14 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Not identifying as a Latino adolescent 10-14 years
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
480 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intervention group

    8 weekly education sessions 2.5 hours

    Behavioral: Parent education classes

  • No intervention
    Wait-list control group

    No education sessions

Interventions

  • BehavioralParent education classes

    8 weekly classes for fathers and youth (10-14 years) at community centers focused on improving parenting skills, youth energy balance related behaviors and weight status

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. 3 24-hour diet recalls

    Dietary intake (fruits, vegetables, sweetened beverages, sweets and salty snacks, family meals)

    Time frame: Baseline to 3 months

  2. Physical activity

    Physical activity survey

    Time frame: Baseline to 3 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Parenting practice survey

    Frequency of role modeling, setting expectations, making opportunities for healthy choices available

    Time frame: Baseline to 3 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • University of Minnesota
    Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Baltaci A, Hurtado Choque GA, Davey C, Reyes Peralta A, Alvarez de Davila S, Zhang Y, Gold A, Larson N, Reicks M. Padres Preparados, Jovenes Saludables: intervention impact of a randomized controlled trial on Latino father and adolescent energy balance-related behaviors. BMC Public Health. 2022 Oct 18;22(1):1932. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14284-5. PubMed 36258168 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from Mar 2016 to primary completion in Feb 2021, 59 months.

Of 539 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Pediatric Obesity, half reached primary completion within 25 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 45. This study's 59 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 541 studies reached it within 25 months; a quarter within 11 and three quarters within 45.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Mar 8, 2018
First posted
Mar 19, 2018
StartActual
Mar 1, 2016
Primary completionActual
Feb 28, 2021
CompletionActual
Feb 28, 2021
Last update
Aug 20, 2021
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 20, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03469752
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 19, 2018
Start date
Mar 1, 2016
Primary completion
Feb 28, 2021
Completion
Feb 28, 2021
Last update
Aug 20, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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