An interventional study of Arm A Grow Well and Arm B Healthy Steps in Diet Habit, sponsored by University of California, Riverside. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-05-09.
Sponsored by University of California, Riverside · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
This research uses community based participatory research (CBPR) to engage low-income Latinx families in research to pilot test an adapted nutrition education program compared to an existing nutrition education program. The goal of the research is to provide nutrition education on healthy infant feeding to reduce risk for early childhood obesity. The prevalence of obesity in early life remains unacceptably high, especially among low-income children, most are ethnic minorities. Marked ethnic disparities are evident by two years of age, which suggests that existing interventions are not adequate. This project, which focuses on an-at-risk child population, has great potential to address our nation's growing crisis of childhood obesity, which can dramatically improve the health of millions of low-income children, their families, and their future children.
This research will implement and evaluate an existing healthy infant feeding intervention, Healthy Beginnings, which was developed for English-speaking low-income mothers in Australia and delivered by public health nurses via in-home visits. The investigator will test the efficacy of an adapted version of this intervention in comparison to the original intervention.
Aim 1. Pilot test an adapted nutrition education program of, compared to the original program curriculum.
● Using a pilot randomized control trial with 30 mother-infant-caregiver triad (15 intervention, 15 control) determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the adapted intervention compared to the original intervention.
The investigator hypothesize that the adapted intervention will be feasible, acceptable to study participants, and efficacious in addressing feeding styles and practices and caregivers' role in infant feeding. The investigator anticipate that the intervention will be feasible to deliver and acceptable to mothers' participants and caregivers' participants, and that the mother's participants-infant-caregiver triads randomized to intervention with the adapted Healthy Beginnings curriculum compared to the treatment as usual control group will demonstrate greater improvements in outcomes (i.e., infant feeding knowledge and use of recommended feeding practices) after 6 months compared to the control group.
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Grow Well and will receive the adapted Healthy Beginnings Curriculum (n= 15 mother-infant-caregiver triad) determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the adapted intervention. The intervention will be on mothers' and caregivers' infant feeding knowledge, use of recommended feeding practices, and infant anthropometric measurement outcomes.
Other: Arm A Grow Well
Group B will receive the Healthy Steps curriculum or treatment as usual as this is the curriculum commonly shared during well baby visits (n= 15 mother-infant-caregiver triad).
Other: Arm B Healthy Steps
1. the preliminary efficacy of the adapted intervention on mothers' and caregivers' infant feeding knowledge, use of recommended feeding practices, and infant anthropometric measurement outcomes. 2. the feasibility of implementing the intervention and its acceptability among mothers and caregivers. 3. the feasibility of collecting infant anthropometric data.
Also known as: Intervention
Group B: Healthy Steps and will receive the Healthy Steps curriculum or treatment as usual as this is the curriculum commonly shared during well baby visits (n= 15 mother-infant-caregiver triad).
Also known as: Control Group
Efficacy of the adapted intervention on mothers' and caregivers' infant.
It will include an intervention and control group and will be carried out over 6 months or 24 weeks and will involve 30 mother-infant-caregiver triads. Pretest and posttest surveys will be collected at baseline (week 1), and at six months follow up (week 24).
Time frame: 0 months (infant birth) to one year
Data Collection-Infant Feeding Practices
The survey will collect data on infant feeding practices using the validated Infant Feeding Scale Questionnaire (Thompson et al., 2009). It questionnaire is designed to assess maternal attitude towards infant feeding methods and to predict breastfeeding intention and exclusivity. The scale is composed of 17 items with a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).The measurements of unit will be in fluid ounces.
Time frame: 0 months (infant birth) to one year
Data collection-anthropometric data
The study team members will collect anthropometric data, weight, length, and body fat composition from infants at the beginning and end of the study period. The infant body fat composition using fat calipers; Skinfolds (mm) Triceps (mm); Subscapular (mm); Liver (mm); Flank(mm); Thigh (mm)
Time frame: 0 months (infant birth) to one year
Data collection-anthropometric data
The study team members will collect anthropometric data, weight, length, and body fat composition from infants at the beginning and end of the study period. The infant weight using Body measurements: Child Weight (kg)
Time frame: 0 months (infant birth) to one year
Data collection-anthropometric data
The study team members will collect anthropometric data, weight, length, and body fat composition from infants at the beginning and end of the study period. The infant length using an infant measuring device that infants lay on, and body fat composition using fat calipers. Length (cm).
Time frame: 0 months (infant birth) to one year
Data collection-sociodemographic questions
The study team members will collect data Socio-demographic variables include, for example, age, sex, education, migration background and ethnicity, religious affiliation, marital status, household, employment, and income.
Time frame: 0 months (infant birth) to one year
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