Latino Fathers Promoting Healthy Youth Behaviors

NCT ID: NCT03469752

Last Updated: 2021-08-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 480 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-03-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-02-28

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Latino parent-focused education that combines enhancing parent engagement, building quality parent-child relationships, promoting healthy eating and physical activity, and engaging families with community resources for healthy foods on youth energy balance related behaviors and weight status.

Detailed Description

The Latino Parents Promoting Healthy Youth Behavior Project aims to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to prevent obesity among Latino youth (10-14 yrs) by engaging parents and their families in culturally and linguistically appropriate education. The goal of this project is to prevent overweight and obesity in Latino adolescents by increasing the frequency of positive paternal or maternal (or other caregiver) parenting practices related to the food and physical activity environment in the home (role modeling, availability, expectations, communication) which will improve weight status of children by improving energy balance related behaviors (EBRBs) - eating fruits and vegetables and limiting soft drink, sweets, salty snacks, and fast food consumption, limiting screen time and increasing physical activity).

Objective 1) To adapt, implement and evaluate efficacy of a curriculum specifically for Latino families, using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) that incorporates parenting education to increase frequency of parenting practices (role modeling, availability, expectations, communication) to improve EBRBs and weight status of youth.

Objective 2) To evaluate the efficacy of Latino parent-focused education that combines enhancing parent engagement, building quality parent-child relationships, promoting healthy eating and physical activity, and engaging families with community resources for healthy foods on youth EBRBs and weight status.

Formative research and planning will be completed in Years 1-2 including focus group interviews and consultation with community partners and a Parent Advisory Board. An existing 8-session course curriculum will be adapted. The adapted curriculum will be pilot-tested with a small group of parents and children in a single group, pre-post design, and revised as needed.

In years 2 to 4, a randomized-controlled trial (RCT) will be conducted based on full implementation of the adapted curriculum by collaborating agencies with the support of U of MN Extension. Training will be designed and implemented among community partner and U of MN Extension staff who will be implementing the program at local sites.

The RCT will be implemented at two organizations in each of years 2, 3 and 4 in a staggered fashion. In year 5, data will be analyzed, reports developed, papers written and submitted for publication, and results will be reported back to community collaborators (organizations and individuals).

Hypothesis:

1. Compared to a delayed-treatment control group at immediate post-course and 3 months post-course, statistically significant changes will be observed in the home food and physical activity environment and frequency of related paternal and maternal parenting practices (making fruits, vegetables, and opportunities for physical activity more available and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), sweets, salty snacks, fast food and opportunities for sedentary behaviors less available; role modeling of positive EBRBs, setting expectations and rules related to improvements in EBRBs, and increased frequency of parent-youth communication regarding youth EBRBs).

2. Compared to a delayed-treatment control group at immediate post-course and 3 months post-course, youth in the treatment group will have statistically significant improvements in EBRBs including increased fruit and vegetable intake, increased physical activity, lower intake of SSBs, sweets, salty snacks and fast food, decreased screen time/sedentary time, and stable weight status.

Conditions

Diet Modification; Physical Activity; Parenting; Adolescent Obesity

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention group

8 weekly education sessions 2.5 hours

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Parent education classes

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

8 weekly classes for fathers and youth (10-14 years) at community centers focused on improving parenting skills, youth energy balance related behaviors and weight status

Wait-list control group

No education sessions

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Parent education classes

8 weekly classes for fathers and youth (10-14 years) at community centers focused on improving parenting skills, youth energy balance related behaviors and weight status

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Latino adolescent 10-14 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Not identifying as a Latino adolescent 10-14 years

• Minimum Eligible Age: 10 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 14 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Minnesota

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

University of Minnesota

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Countries

United States

References

Baltaci A, Hurtado Choque GA, Davey C, Reyes Peralta A, Alvarez de Davila S, Zhang Y, Gold A, Larson N, Reicks M. Padres Preparados, Jovenes Saludables: intervention impact of a randomized controlled trial on Latino father and adolescent energy balance-related behaviors. BMC Public Health. 2022 Oct 18;22(1):1932. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14284-5.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 36258168 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

2016-68001-24921

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id