Stanford Healthy Goals Study
Wise Social Psychological Interventions to Improve Outcomes of Behavioral Weight Control in Children With Obesity
- Obesity, Childhood
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase not stated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Enrolment target
- 200
- Started
- January 2027
- Main results due
- February 2030
- Study sites
- 1
- Registry updated
- 28 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Ages 10 years to 15 years.
- Open to any sex.
- You need the condition being studied — healthy volunteers are not accepted.
These are the headline rules only. Every study has a longer list, and whether you are eligible is decided by the research team at the site — never by this page.
Read the full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * 10-15 year old children * Obesity (BMI ≥ 95th percentile on the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BMI reference) on the date of randomization. * Child and at least one parent/guardian must agree to participate Exclusion Criteria: * Medical conditions affecting growth * Medications affecting growth * Conditions limiting participation in the interventions * Conditions limiting participation in the assessments * Unable to read, understand or complete informed consent in English or Spanish * Other exclusion as deemed by the investigators
What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
Past modest, transient and highly variable outcomes from many behavioral treatments for pediatric obesity may be, in part, because of the psychological barriers children with obesity face when trying to control their weight. The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to test whether adding two innovative, brief, social psychological activities (termed "wise" interventions) to a high quality, family-based, group behavioral weight control program, will produce better outcomes among participating children with obesity.
The primary hypothesis is that children who receive the family-based, group, behavioral weight control program plus the wise social psychological interventions will have significantly less body mass index growth over 12 months than children who receive the family-based, group, behavioral weight control program plus additional educational content.
Participants will be asked to do participate in the six month treatment program and complete measurements at the beginning of the study, after 3 months, after 6 months (the end of the behavioral treatment program), and after 12 months (6 months after completing the behavioral treatment program).
This study has the potential to substantially improve the outcomes of pediatric weight control treatments and significantly reduce concurrent and future health, psychological and social harms from childhood obesity.
Study sites(1)
Stanford University
Stanford, California, United States
Recruiting
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT07839832. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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