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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
70 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2007-07-31
2008-07-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Yet the effects of this early viewing are poorly understood. In this study, we focus on children's diet, because children's food preferences have been shown to be easily influenced by advertising, and children's non-educational programming is heavy with advertising for poor nutritional-quality foods.
We will recruit 70 families with children ages 24-30 months and randomize them to either a television-minimization intervention (the intervention arm) or a toddler safety and injury prevention arm (the control arm). A case manager will actively work with the intervention arm participants to strategize ways of minimizing their media exposure. In addition, families in the intervention arm will get access both to a study website and to a monthly newsletter. The website and newsletter will inform participants of the potential hazards of early media exposure, and will offer tips for alternative activities and strategies for keeping children occupied while the parent gets a much-needed break. The control arm will have no case manager, but will have access to a website and newsletter that will emphasize toddler safety and injury-prevention themes. At the conclusion of the 4-month trial, we will assess (a) whether the study participants regularly accessed their respective websites; (b) whether the intervention-arm participants have different beliefs and attitudes about television for toddlers; and (c) whether fewer intervention-arm children watch TV compared to control-arm infants.
The comparison group will receive a similar intervention, except that it will not mention television viewing, and will instead focus on toddler and preschooler safety and injury-prevention topics, such as the appropriate use of car seats, smoke detectors, hot water heater temperature, safe gun storage, and other similar topics.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
NONE
Study Groups
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Parents receive tailored health-behavior change messages designed to reduce their child's exposure to televised food commercials. Intervention is delivered by a case manager, by a website, and by periodic newsletters.
TV modification
Parents receive a health behavior-change intervention consisting of 1 in-person visit from a case manager, followed by phone and e-mail contact at least monthly. The intervention is designed to promote healthy TV viewing, including viewing fewer commercials, by the target child aged 2-5 years old, and uses health behavior change theory and social cognitive theory.
Control
Parents of children ages 2-5 receive behavioral-change counseling around toddler \& preschooler safety and injury prevention.
safety and injury prevention
Parents receive behavior-change counseling around toddler and preschooler safety and injury prevention.
Interventions
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TV modification
Parents receive a health behavior-change intervention consisting of 1 in-person visit from a case manager, followed by phone and e-mail contact at least monthly. The intervention is designed to promote healthy TV viewing, including viewing fewer commercials, by the target child aged 2-5 years old, and uses health behavior change theory and social cognitive theory.
safety and injury prevention
Parents receive behavior-change counseling around toddler and preschooler safety and injury prevention.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Must speak English at home
* Residence in or near Seattle
Exclusion Criteria
2 Years
5 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Seattle Children's Hospital
OTHER
University of Washington
OTHER
Responsible Party
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University of Washington
Principal Investigators
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Frederick J Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Washington
Locations
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Child Health Institute, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
Countries
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References
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Zimmerman FJ, Ortiz SE, Christakis DA, Elkun D. The value of social-cognitive theory to reducing preschool TV viewing: a pilot randomized trial. Prev Med. 2012 Mar-Apr;54(3-4):212-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.02.004. Epub 2012 Feb 14.
Other Identifiers
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07-6609-J01
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id