Coordination of Care Between Pediatricians and Women Infants & Children Nutritionists

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

289 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-07-06

Study Completion Date

2019-01-31

Brief Summary

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WEE Baby Care is a 6 month intervention that coordinates care across multiple settings- health care clinics and WIC clinics on responsive parenting practices to increase parenting competence thereby preventing infant rapid weight gain. The investigators will recruit mother/infant dyads in Central PA, who participate in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and receive clinical care from a Geisinger pediatrician participating in this study.

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Detailed Description

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This multi-site, randomized, controlled trial (RCT) will test the hypothesis that an individually tailored responsive parenting obesity prevention intervention that coordinates care provided by WIC nutritionists and primary care providers (PCPs) will be more effective than usual care at 1) delivering consistent messages and 2) changing maternal and infant behavior to 3) reduce/prevent rapid infant growth from birth to 6 months.

Geisinger research staff will recruit mother/infants dyads primarily from newborn nurseries from Geisinger Health Systems hospitals in Central Pennsylvania (PA). Mother-infant dydas may also be recruited directly from newborn well-child visits, prenatal WIC visits, and using social media platforms such as Facebook. Key eligibility criteria include that infants participate in the Special Supplemental Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and receive clinical care from a participating Geisinger Health Systems pediatrician. Upon eligibility and receiving consent, mother/infant dyads will be randomized to 1 of 2 groups: intervention (coordination of care) or control (Geisinger standard of pediatric care), stratified on infant birth weight, race, and parity. In this study, coordination of care is defined at two levels: (1) PCPs and WIC will deliver the same, consistent messages and (2) providers will communicate with each other on preventive care plans regarding responsive parenting and nutrition education.

The intervention will consist of 3 components: 1) a parent self-assessment and screening survey called Early Healthy Living/Lifestyles (EHL) tool to assess the child's future obesity risk and tailor education; 2) parenting and nutrition education using the Healthy Active Living for Families curriculum (HALF) developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, supplemented by evidence-based materials that teach mothers alternatives to using feeding to manage infant behavior, and establishing good sleep hygiene; and 3) coordination of care between PCPs and WIC nutritionists utilizing HIT. Components 1 and 2 focus on teaching mothers to recognize hunger and fullness signs in their infants, use alternative soothing strategies to feeding, develop good sleep hygiene routines, and engage in active social play.

Once consented and enrolled, all parents receive a welcome packet with brief parenting tips tailored to the group assignment. Intervention participants will also be mailed the responsive parenting curriculum after enrolling that addresses the domains of infant sleep, feeding, soothing and play. Pediatricians who have patients enrolled and randomized to the intervention group will have access to the EHL data in the patient's electronic health record which they then use to record notes about each well child visit. After each well-child visit, these notes including the EHL data will be electronically sent to the child's WIC nutritionist, to be read prior to a WIC nutrition appointment with that client.

Information from the WIC nutritionist appointments, including nutrition counseling codes from each appointment in addition to collected health information will then be sent to the child's pediatrician, to be included as part of the child's electronic health record.

Child's growth measures will be taken from the well baby visits, along with any unique information from the WIC nutritionist visits. In addition, data collection surveys will be distributed to all study participants at 2, 5 and 7 months after birth, either electronically or by paper packet.

Conditions

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Childhood Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

A multi-site, randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test that hypothesis that an individually tailored responsive parenting obesity prevention intervention that coordinates care provided by WIC nutritionists and primary care providers will be effective to ultimately reduce/prevent obesity in infants.

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Responsive parenting treatment

Early Healthy Lifestyles (EHL) screening tool reported by participants to identify potentially obesogenic parenting practices and child behaviors; data sharing/coordination into electronic health records to inform counseling by trained providers; responsive parenting curriculum delivered by trained WIC nutritionists.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Early healthy lifestyles

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patient reported data to identify parenting practices and child behaviors associated with child's obesigenic risk in the future

Responsive parenting curriculum

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Information from the American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Active Living for Families (HALF) program supplemented with messages from the INSIGHT study, that were written at the 5th grade reading level, with messages focused on 4 categories: 1) feeding the baby 2) soothing the baby 3) sleep health and 4) playing with the baby

Data sharing/coordination

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Data integration into child's electronic health record that is shared between settings (WIC and GHS PCPs) with display and documentation features that informs counseling.

Standard Care Control

Standard of pediatric and WIC care

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Early healthy lifestyles

Patient reported data to identify parenting practices and child behaviors associated with child's obesigenic risk in the future

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Responsive parenting curriculum

Information from the American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Active Living for Families (HALF) program supplemented with messages from the INSIGHT study, that were written at the 5th grade reading level, with messages focused on 4 categories: 1) feeding the baby 2) soothing the baby 3) sleep health and 4) playing with the baby

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Data sharing/coordination

Data integration into child's electronic health record that is shared between settings (WIC and GHS PCPs) with display and documentation features that informs counseling.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

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EHL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* mother is English speaking, infant is a singleton birth, infant birthweight greater than or equal to 2500g, infant gestational age at least 37 weeks, infant no more than 2 months old, no plans for baby to be put up for adoption, no congenital or neonatal conditions that would affect growth, mother has no major morbidities that would affect postpartum care, eligible and/or enrolled in a WIC program in central PA, infant pediatrician is a Geisinger physician in a pediatric service line in Luzerne county

Exclusion Criteria

* non-English speaking, mother is planning to leave the county where she enrolled within 6-9 months, mother is less than 18 years of age, mother is older than 55 years of age

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

55 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes