Strong Families Start at Home/Familias Fuertes Comienzan en Casa: A Novel Video and Motivational Interviewing Intervention to Improve Diet Quality of Low-income, Ethnically Diverse Children

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

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the ability of a home-based parental nutrition intervention to improve diet quality in preschool aged children within low-income, Latinx/Hispanic families. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does this enhanced intervention change children's diet quality? * Does this enhanced intervention change parental feeding practices? * Does this enhanced intervention change the availability of healthy foods in the home? Participants will: * Work with a support coach * Have a home visit with a support coach once a month, for three months * Have a phone call with a support coach once a month, for three months * Receive written materials and text messages over the six months Researchers will compare a control group receiving different written materials and messages to see if the enhanced intervention changes diet quality in children.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
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• At least 18 years old

• Self-identity as Latinx/Hispanic

• Speak English or Spanish

• Be the primary caregiver of a child between 2- 5 years of age

• Live with the child most of the time

• Eat a minimum of three evening meals per week with the child

• Not have participated in the R34 study

• Have a smart phone

• Be willing to have a meal video recorded in the home

Locations
United States
Rhode Island
Brown University
RECRUITING
Providence
Contact Information
Primary
Alison Tovar, PhD MPH
alison_tovar@brown.edu
401-863-7327
Backup
Kelly Bouchard, MPH
kelly_bouchard@brown.edu
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-01-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-11-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 257
Treatments
Experimental: Home-Based Video and Motivational Interviewing Intervention
The intervention will be delivered in English or Spanish by a trained CHW and consists of three home-based visits with tailored print materials, text-messages delivered 2x/week, followed by monthly tailored print materials and phone calls during the last three months of the intervention. For in-home visits, the CHW will deliver a Motivational Interviewing session based on scripts developed in the R34. For phone calls, parents will receive a 30-minute Motivational Interviewing phone call to check in on goals and barriers and reinforce earlier concepts. For text messages, parents will be sent two times/week messages related to objectives targeted during that month's visit, such as parents setting good examples and giving children autonomy in eating. For print materials, parents will receive printed materials, highlighting nutrition and parental feeding guidance.
Active_comparator: Read Educate and Develop Youth (READY) Comparison
As done in the R34, the comparison group will receive an attention contact control intervention about school readiness promotion adapted from R.E.A.D.Y. (Read Educate and Develop Youth) designed by the Michigan Department of Education (Refs). Families in the comparison arm will receive the same intervention components as the intervention arm, but these will be focused on child reading rather than nutrition. Parents will send a video of themselves reading with a child, receive 3 home visits and 48 text-messages as well as newsletters for each visit. Instead of receiving cooking materials during the second home visit, they will receive books to read with their children.
Sponsors
Leads: Brown University
Collaborators: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

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