An interventional study of Families Implementing Good Health Traditions for Life in Diabetes, Chronic Disease and Type 2 Diabetes, sponsored by Morehouse School of Medicine. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-05.
Sponsored by Morehouse School of Medicine · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This study will provide evidence for the utility of using a community-engaged research approach to implement a tailored, family-oriented adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program that will have positive effects on risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes morbidity and mortality among Black families in a Southwest Georgia community.
The goal of this project is to utilize a community-engaged research approach to reduce type 2 diabetes risk among Black families through the tailoring of the diabetes prevention program for families. The proposed study will be carried out by researchers and community members with expertise in community engagement, type 2 diabetes prevention, and family interventions/programming. It is hypothesized that the Families Implementing Good Health Traditions for Life study (FIGHT for Life), a region specific adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for high-risk adults paired with a DPP-adapted curriculum for children will result in improved program acceptance and compliance, thus improving health indicators associated with type 2 diabetes risk across Black families. The efficacy of the community-engaged research-adapted FIGHT for Life intervention to improve weight, an important type 2 diabetes risk factor, in Black parents with pre-diabetes (primary outcome) will be evaluated. The goal is that parents enrolled in the family intervention will demonstrate a 4% reduction in weight at the end of the intervention.
10,371 studies on the registry are indexed under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; 1,406 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 70 is below the median of 80 across 8,350 interventional studies indexed under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2.
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Compared within Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Diabetes Mellitus. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
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A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
HbA1c
A blood test of average blood sugar over the past two to three months, given as a percentage or in mmol/mol. 6.5% (48 mmol/mol) or more is the usual threshold for diabetes, normally confirmed by a second test.
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Seven cohorts with a total of seventy families (10 families per cohort) will be enrolled in the study. Families will meet for weekly for 16 weeks and be administered child and adult specific curriculums to encourage healthy lifestyle changes. The adults will received the initial 16-week curriculum of the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program, and the children will receive an aligned DPP-adapted curriculum.
Behavioral: Families Implementing Good Health Traditions for Life
The 16-session weekly curriculum will have five components: 1) strategies for monitoring food intake and reducing calories; 2) identifying and controlling both personal and social cues for unhealthy eating behaviors; 3) the role of stress in unhealthy eating and relapse prevention; 4) strategies for monitoring and improving physical activity and sedentary behaviors; and 5) strategies to improve family support and cohesion. Parents and children will be divided into separate, 2-hour sessions most weeks. The sessions will be co-facilitated by trained CHWs and research staff members. As children of different ages will be participating, enough staff will be present to keep youth sessions well-coordinated in order to engage all ages. All sessions will be held in community locations convenient to the families, such as YMCAs, faith-based institutions, federally qualified health centers, etc.
Also known as: FIGHT of Life
Change in weight from baseline to post-intervention at 4 months
Parents enrolled in the family intervention will demonstrate a 4% change in weight at the end of the intervention.
Time frame: 4 months
Plan to share: No — Individual Participant Data (IPD) collected during this study will not be shared with external researchers. The decision not to share IPD is based on considerations including participant confidentiality, informed consent limitations, and institutional data protection policies. All data will be reported in aggregate form in publications and presentations to ensure that no individual participant can be identified. Qualified researchers may contact the study sponsor or principal investigator with specific inquiries; however, access to raw individual-level data will not be provided.
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Started Feb 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2028, 25 months after the start.
Of 2,066 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, half reached primary completion within 21 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 40. This study's planned 25 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 2,243 studies reached it within 21 months; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 39.
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