Community Support Programs for Childhood Obesity
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
Community coalitions bring together residents and organizations to improve child health, but they may need support to identify and put research-supported strategies into practice. This study will examine whether a program called FICAS can be delivered successfully and is useful to coalition members. FICAS uses information about relationships within a coalition to help involve people with relevant perspectives, share evidence, compare possible strategies, make decisions, and adjust support as the coalition's work develops.
Three community coalitions will participate. All three will eventually receive Catalyzing Communities, a program that provides facilitated meetings, collaborative planning, technical assistance, and funding for coalition-led action. One coalition will begin the program later, one will receive Catalyzing Communities alone, and one will receive Catalyzing Communities with FICAS. The study will help determine whether FICAS and the study procedures should be refined and tested in a larger study.
Who Is on the Research Team?
Travis R Moore, PhD
Principal Investigator
University of Pittsburgh
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
This trial is for members of community coalitions working to improve child health, especially around childhood obesity and healthy food policies. Participants are typically residents or organizations already involved in these local groups.Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Catalyzing Communities
- FICAS Implementation Intervention
Trial Overview
The study compares two support programs: Catalyzing Communities (which offers meetings, planning help, and funding) alone versus Catalyzing Communities plus FICAS (an added tool that helps coalitions use evidence-based strategies). Coalitions are assigned different combinations by the researchers.
How Is the Trial Designed?
3
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
During the initial comparison period, this coalition will receive study assessments and retention contacts but no active Catalyzing Communities or FICAS intervention. After the prespecified pre-crossover assessment, the coalition will cross over to Catalyzing Communities only. It will not receive the FICAS augmentation during the registered comparison period.
This coalition will receive the Catalyzing Communities base implementation-support platform plus the FICAS multicomponent implementation intervention. FICAS adds data-informed committee selection, opinion leader engagement, structured evidence review, structured decision support, and online network monitoring and adaptation.
This coalition will receive the Catalyzing Communities base implementation-support platform, including coalition convening, group model building, technical assistance, and seed funding to support coalition-led selection and early implementation of an evidence-informed strategy. It will not receive the FICAS augmentation.
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
University of Pittsburgh
Lead Sponsor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Collaborator
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