Toddler Overweight Prevention Study Among Low-Income Families
NCT ID: NCT02615158
Last Updated: 2020-05-12
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COMPLETED
NA
277 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2006-04-30
2014-05-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Overweight is a serious public health problem which can begin in early childhood. Factors which contribute to overweight include: overfeeding, excessive intakes of fat and sugar; frequent sedentary activities (i.e. television watching).
Overweight, defined as a BMI \> 95th percentile, in early childhood has reached epidemic proportions with 14% of 2-5 year olds overweight and 26.2% "at risk of overweight," defined as a BMI \> 85th percentile (Ogden et al., 2006).
Dietary and physical activity patterns established early in life track over time, making the first few years of life an ideal time to help families establish healthy eating and physical activity behaviors and avoid overweight. This project works to identify techniques that could prevent overweight.
Purpose of Study:
The investigators are collaborating with the Anne Arundel County, MD Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the University of Maryland's Pediatric Ambulatory Center to implement strategies that will prevent overweight among toddlers. The project focuses on the dietary, physical activity, and growth patterns of WIC toddlers. The investigators are conducting a 3-cell randomized trial consisting of: 1) a maternal intervention focusing on healthy diet and physical activity patterns for mothers; 2) a toddler parenting intervention focusing on parenting, limit setting, and development strategies; and 3) an intervention on child safety. The interventions are implemented over 3 months, with 8 sessions.
The investigators hypothesize that altering maternal behavior will have a positive impact on the growth and development of the toddler by preventing behaviors that lead to overweight among children. The parenting intervention will improve parenting skills by offering information on proper approaches to feeding, discipline and educational play. The investigators will compare the growth patterns of toddlers whose mothers were randomized to the maternal and parenting interventions with those in the safety intervention. This study design allows us to examine the mechanisms linking the interventions to improvements in diet, physical activity, and growth.
In addition, the investigators will conduct the safety promotion intervention for the attention control group, considering the high risk of unintentional injuries among the toddlers from low-income families. The investigators also hypothesize that the safety promotion intervention will reduce the safety problems of the toddlers' homes. The underlying mechanisms will be examined, if there is a significant intervention effect.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
PREVENTION
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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Maternal Physical Activity and Nutrition
A maternal intervention focusing on healthy diet and physical activity patterns for mothers.
Maternal Physical Activity and Nutrition
At each session, mothers will identify a dietary goal for the next session (e.g., reduce soda intake). They will learn to track and evaluate their progress, setting new goals or modifying existing ones as necessary. Mothers will be given pedometers and shown how to keep a pedometer tracking chart. As with dietary choice, our objective is to have the mothers identify personal goals and strategies to achieve those goals, so they are more likely to continue to engage in physical activity after the intervention ends.
Parenting
A toddler parenting intervention focusing on parenting, limit setting, and development strategies.
Parenting
Behavior and Development Related to Diet and Physical Activity. The toddler parenting intervention will include modules on toddler behavior and development. We will devote sessions to topics involving parenting toddlers, limit setting, and child development.
Child Safety
Attention control group. The parents received intervention to promote safety among toddlers.
Child Safety
The intervention will focus on child safety issues, including car seat safety, fire safety, fall prevention, and poison prevention. Participants will set weekly child safety goals.
Interventions
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Maternal Physical Activity and Nutrition
At each session, mothers will identify a dietary goal for the next session (e.g., reduce soda intake). They will learn to track and evaluate their progress, setting new goals or modifying existing ones as necessary. Mothers will be given pedometers and shown how to keep a pedometer tracking chart. As with dietary choice, our objective is to have the mothers identify personal goals and strategies to achieve those goals, so they are more likely to continue to engage in physical activity after the intervention ends.
Parenting
Behavior and Development Related to Diet and Physical Activity. The toddler parenting intervention will include modules on toddler behavior and development. We will devote sessions to topics involving parenting toddlers, limit setting, and child development.
Child Safety
The intervention will focus on child safety issues, including car seat safety, fire safety, fall prevention, and poison prevention. Participants will set weekly child safety goals.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Has child between 12-32 months
* Child able to walk
* Birth weight of child at least 5lbs. 8oz.
Exclusion Criteria
* No known congenital problems or disabilities
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Johns Hopkins University
OTHER
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
University of Maryland, Baltimore
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Maureen Black
Professor
Principal Investigators
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Maureen M Black, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Maryland, College Park
Locations
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University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
University of Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Countries
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References
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Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Curtin LR, McDowell MA, Tabak CJ, Flegal KM. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. JAMA. 2006 Apr 5;295(13):1549-55. doi: 10.1001/jama.295.13.1549.
Campbell KL, Wang Y, Kuhn AP, Black MM, Hager ER. An ecological momentary assessment study of physical activity behaviors among mothers of toddlers from low-income households. BMC Womens Health. 2021 Mar 22;21(1):120. doi: 10.1186/s12905-021-01243-2.
Covington L, Armstrong B, Trude ACB, Black MM. Longitudinal Associations Among Diet Quality, Physical Activity and Sleep Onset Consistency With Body Mass Index z-Score Among Toddlers in Low-income Families. Ann Behav Med. 2021 Jun 28;55(7):653-664. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaaa100.
Black MM, Hager ER, Wang Y, Hurley KM, Latta LW, Candelaria M, Caulfield LE. Toddler obesity prevention: A two-generation randomized attention-controlled trial. Matern Child Nutr. 2021 Jan;17(1):e13075. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13075. Epub 2020 Sep 4.
Armstrong B, Covington LB, Hager ER, Black MM. Objective sleep and physical activity using 24-hour ankle-worn accelerometry among toddlers from low-income families. Sleep Health. 2019 Oct;5(5):459-465. doi: 10.1016/j.sleh.2019.04.005. Epub 2019 Jun 3.
Wang Y, Gielen AC, Magder LS, Hager ER, Black MM. A randomised safety promotion intervention trial among low-income families with toddlers. Inj Prev. 2018 Feb;24(1):41-47. doi: 10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042178. Epub 2017 Apr 6.
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