Family Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Part of paid clinical trials in Los Angeles, California.

Sponsor
University of California, Los Angeles
Study ID
NCT05606731
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
2 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Family-Based Childhood Obesity Intervention — BEHAVIORAL
    The study will focus on the effectiveness of a community- and family-based intervention that will involve multiple family caregivers. The intervention will include in-person and mobile phone components focusing on Latino caregivers of young children, to support evidence-based and age appropriate dietary, media-viewing, and physical activity practices among 2- to 5-year old children.

Study Details

Consumption of sweetened beverages, media-viewing, and physical activity patterns are often established during early childhood, and family-based obesity interventions show effectiveness in shaping healthy behaviors and weight outcomes for young children, including Latino children. Missing from these interventions, however, are methods to increase accessibility and dissemination to multiple family caregivers. The proposed work will use a randomized study design to evaluate the impact a family-based early childhood obesity intervention for Latino families that incorporates evidence-based strategies of in-person childhood obesity interventions, mobile phones, and leverages important determinants of Latino health (e.g. familism, language) in order to decrease ethnic disparities in childhood obesity and cardiovascular risk.

Key Dates

Start date
Nov 6, 2023
Status verified
Mar 2025
Primary completion
Sep 30, 2026
Completion
Dec 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
182 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Experimental: Intervention Group
    The study's intervention is a parenting/caregiver training program that includes 1-month of weekly in-person sessions plus multi-media interactive text messaging. The weekly 1-hour-in-person sessions will be coupled with four interactive messages per week for a period of 4 weeks total, followed by "booster" text messages after completing the 4-week program.
  • No Intervention: Usual Care
    "Usual care" for caregivers of 2- to-5-year-olds will include the Women Infant and Children services : (1) monthly vouchers for nutritious food; (2) individual nutrition counseling at least twice per year; (3) nutrition education two times per year (1:1 counseling or online health education modules); and (4) referrals to family services.

Primary Outcome Measure

Child BMI [ Time Frame: change in baseline and 12-month post baseline ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Head StartLos AngelesCalifornia90670
Debra Hall
[email protected]
562-940-1657
Cecilia Maldonado
[email protected]

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