Challenge!, a Health Promotion/ Obesity Prevention Program for Teens

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

235

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2001

Primary Completion Date

July 31, 2005

Study Completion Date

January 31, 2007

Conditions
Overweight
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Challenge!

"Each adolescent in the intervention group received 12 lessons administered in adolescent's home or community by a personal trainer (a college-aged mentor). The lessons focused on behavior change relating to diet and physical activity and was based on social cognitive theory. At the end of each lesson the adolescent set a behavior change goal for themselves. The adolescents were taught how to track their goals and they discussed thir ability/inability to meet their goals at each meeting with their personal trainer."

Trial Locations (1)

21201

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Annie E. Casey Foundation

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

The Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City

OTHER

collaborator

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

OTHER

collaborator

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

OTHER

lead

University of Maryland, Baltimore

OTHER

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