patiEnt-cliNic-Community Integration to prevent obesity in Rural preschool ChiLdrEn (ENCIRCLE)
ENCIRCLE
The ENCIRCLE study is a collaboration with Geisinger, a large health care system serving rural and medically underserved communities across Pennsylvania, designed to promote family-centered counseling to prevent obesity among high-risk preschool-aged children. The Center for Childhood Obesity Research adapted existing evidence-based obesity prevention programs that included messaging on nutrition, physical activity, positive parenting behaviors, and food resource management skills for telehealth delivery, trained health coaches and registered dietitians to deliver the intervention and monitored intervention delivery.
Project Details
Dates: May 2020-May 2025
PI: Lisa Bailey-Davis
Co-I: Jennifer Savage Williams, Melissa Poulsen, David Dzewaltowski, Jennifer Franceschelli Hosterman, Gregory Welk, Lester Kirchner
Sponsor: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
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Project Goals:
To identify whether two enhancements to standard well-child visits at Geisinger, designed to promote family-centered counseling to prevent obesity, offer advantages compared to standard well-child visits.
Project Findings and Resources:
Bailey-Davis L, Moore AM, Poulsen MN, Dzewaltowski DA, Cummings S, DeCriscio LR, Hosterman JF, Huston D, Kirchner HL, Lutcher S, McCabe C, Welk GJ, Savage JS. Comparing enhancements to well-child visits in the prevention of obesity: ENCIRCLE cluster-randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2022 Dec 26;22(1):2429. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14827-w. PMID: 36572870; PMCID: PMC9792161.
Project Contacts
Lisa Bailey-Davis
- Associate Professor Department of Population Health Sciences, Geisinger College of Health Sciences
- Associate Director, Obesity Research Institute, Geisinger College of Health Sciences