A Hybrid Mobile Phone Family Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

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.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 2
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⁃ Adult caregivers of a young child who:

• self-identify as an individual of Latino descent

• have a 2- to 5-year-old child/grandchild who is overweight or obese, defined as having a BMI\>85% for age and sex

• lives with or cares for the child at least 20 hours per week (the relationship does not have to be biological

• speaks Spanish or English

• ability and willingness to participate in the intervention (determined with a Subject Comprehension and Participation Assessment Tool)

• agrees to complete baseline, 1-, 6-, 12-month post-intervention data collection protocols

Locations
United States
California
Head Start
RECRUITING
Los Angeles
Contact Information
Primary
Alma D Guerrero, MD, MPH
aguerrero@mednet.ucla.edu
(310) 267-2789
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-11-06
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 182
Treatments
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.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of California, Los Angeles
Collaborators: University of California, Merced

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov