An observational study in Pediatric Obesity, sponsored by State University of New York at Buffalo. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 8 Years to 11 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-11-17.
Sponsored by State University of New York at Buffalo · Observational
The goal of this observational study is to understand how children's food preferences, physical activity, and decision-making change over time and how these behaviors relate to body weight and overall health.
A cohort sequential design will be used to track 2 cohorts of children aged 8.5-9 years 11 months, and 10.5-11 years 11 months over a 3 year period to understand how the development of food and activity reinforcement and delay discounting could lead to the development of childhood obesity in children aged 9-14.
1,117 studies on the registry are indexed under Pediatric Obesity; 189 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 250 is above the median of 200 across 231 observational studies indexed under Pediatric Obesity.
Browse Pediatric Obesity studies →State University of New York at Buffalo is the lead sponsor of 287 studies on the registry; 65 are open to participants now.
Of its 19 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 15 (79%) have results posted.
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Male and female children of varying racial/ethnic backgrounds, SES backgrounds, and varying body compositions
Exclusion Criteria:
Children that are enrolled when they are 8.5- 9 years, 11 months of age
Children that are enrolled when they are 10.5-11 years, 11 months age
zBMI
Height and weight will be measured to determine zBMI using the CDC extended BMI-for-age growth charts. First, height (m) and weight (kg) will be used to calculate BMI (kg/m\^2), then, using the CDC extended BMI-for-age growth charts, a zBMI score will be determined based on the charts.
Time frame: 0, 12, 24 and 36 months
body fat
Body fat (% of body weight) will be measured using the Tanita BF-400 Total Body Analyzer.
Time frame: 0, 12, 24 and 36 months
percent change over the overweight BMI
Height and weight will be measured to calculate changes in overweight status of children. Change in percent overweight from 0, 12, 24, 36 months. First, height and weight will be used to calculate BMI (kg/m\^2), then CDC extended growth charts will be used to determine BMI percentile. Percent overweight is calculated as ((childBMI percentile - 85th BMI percentile)/(85th BMI percentile)) x 100. Percent over the age- and sex- specific 85th BMI percentile for children will be used.
Time frame: 0, 12, 24 and 36 months
Plan to share: No
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