Feeding, Fun, and Families Study

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

Get a concise snapshot of the trial, including recruitment status, study phase, enrollment targets, and key timeline milestones.

Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

131 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-07-31

Study Completion Date

2016-03-31

Brief Summary

Review the sponsor-provided synopsis that highlights what the study is about and why it is being conducted.

To develop and evaluate the efficacy of Feeding Fun and Families (FFF), a nutrition education intervention for low-income mothers emphasizing authoritative food parenting skills, on preschool aged children's energy intakes from solid fats and added sugars (SoFAS), using a randomized controlled trial conducted in a clinic-based setting.

FFF will result in lower child SoFAS intakes compared to a no-treatment control group at the end of the 12 week intervention (primary outcome), adjusted for baseline values.

Related Clinical Trials

Explore similar clinical trials based on study characteristics and research focus.

Effectiveness of Differing Levels of Support for Family Mealtimes on Obesity Prevention Among Head Start Preschools

NCT02487251

Obesity

COMPLETED NA

Eat Healthy for Families

NCT03394326

Obesity, Childhood Energy Density Diet Quality

COMPLETED NA

Reducing Obesity Through Play Among Toddlers: Tiny Steps to Health (TSHS) Study

NCT06918821

Childhood Obesity

RECRUITING NA

A Nutrition and Parenting Program for Fathers and Their Pre-school Age Children

NCT03071419

Pediatric Obesity

COMPLETED NA

Choose Health: Food, Fun, and Fitness Curriculum Promotes Positive Behaviors in 3rd-5th Graders Compared to Control

NCT03524911

Childhood Obesity Nutrition Poor

COMPLETED NA

Detailed Description

Dive into the extended narrative that explains the scientific background, objectives, and procedures in greater depth.

Feeding Fun and Families (FFF) taught mothers authoritative parenting skills for reducing children's exposure to and intake of daily energy from SoFAS. FFF was developed and rigorously testing a contextually sensitive, state-of-the art nutrition education program for low-income mothers emphasizing parenting skills. This project represents the first systematic research to translate, from bench-to-bedside, the basic behavioral science on child portion size to clinic-based and then community level nutrition education programming. FFF is a nutrition education intervention emphasizing the "hows" of parenting around feeding young children. Authoritative parenting strategies will target the family food environment, mothers' own eating behaviors, and their child feeding practices. Based on previous research, strategies will attempt to reduce SoFAS portions offered to children by reducing the size of dishware (e.g. cups, bowls, plates) used to serve children and used by children to eat, reducing portion sizes of amorphous (e.g. pasta) and unit foods (e.g. juice box) served to children, and encourage feeding practices that provide structure and autonomy support. The primary outcome, measured at baseline and at the end of the 12 week intervention, children's energy intake of discretionary calories from SoFAS.

Formative qualitative research was used to guide the development of FFF in a manner consistent with low-income mothers' parenting goals and responsive to their socioeconomic constraints. The FFF intervention was tested the "proof of concept" (i.e. efficacy) by evaluating an intensive version of the intervention in a randomized clinical trial (RCT). The findings were used to translate FFF for delivery by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) educators in urban communities of VA (VA), with the potential of being disseminated nationwide through the SNAP-Ed program.

Specific objectives were:

1. Phase I: Qualitatively understand the contextual factors (i.e. psychosocial, economic, structural) that will support mothers' acceptance and implementation of environmental and behavioral portion size strategies to decrease SFAS portions among low-income, at-risk preschoolers.
2. Phase II: To develop and evaluate the efficacy of the FFF obesity prevention nutrition education program for low-income mothers of preschoolers emphasizing behavioral and environmental parenting strategies around portion size in a clinic-based setting.

• FFF will result in lower child SoFAS intakes compared to a no-treatment control group at the end of the 12 week intervention (primary outcome), adjusted for baseline values
3. Phase III: To translate the FFF program for delivery in SNAP-ED to mothers of preschool aged children.

Conditions

See the medical conditions and disease areas that this research is targeting or investigating.

Childhood Obesity

Study Design

Understand how the trial is structured, including allocation methods, masking strategies, primary purpose, and other design elements.

Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

Review each arm or cohort in the study, along with the interventions and objectives associated with them.

FFF

FFF teaches authoritative parenting skills for reducing children's exposure to and intakes of SoFAS, including changes to the family food environment, mothers' own eating behaviors, and food parenting practices.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

FFF

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

FFF teaches authoritative parenting skills for reducing children's exposure to and intakes of SoFAS, including changes to the family eating environment, mothers' own eating behaviors, and food parenting practices.

Control Group

Data are collected at baseline and post intervention session.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Learn about the drugs, procedures, or behavioral strategies being tested and how they are applied within this trial.

FFF

FFF teaches authoritative parenting skills for reducing children's exposure to and intakes of SoFAS, including changes to the family eating environment, mothers' own eating behaviors, and food parenting practices.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Check the participation requirements, including inclusion and exclusion rules, age limits, and whether healthy volunteers are accepted.

Inclusion Criteria

* has a child that is 3-5 y at enrollment (up to 66 mo)
* Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligible
* 18 y or older
* self-reported comfort with spoken and written English

Exclusion Criteria

* child has a restrictive diet
* child has a severe food allergies
* child has a chronic illness or medication that influences intake/growth
* sever psychosocial impairment
* non-English speakers

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes