A Mobile Health Intervention to Reduce Sweet Beverage Consumption in Latino Children

NCT ID: NCT04754269

Last Updated: 2024-05-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-03-05
• Study Completion Date: 2025-07-01

Brief Summary

Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a major contributor to childhood obesity, caries, fatty liver disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Latino children are more likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and to suffer from all of the aforementioned conditions. Reading out loud to children from birth through age 5 is critical for the promotion of language and early literacy skills. Children whose parents read aloud to them are more likely to start school with the skills required for early reading success. This is important as reading proficiency in third grade is the best predictor of high school graduation and career success. Latino children are less likely to be read to than non-Hispanic white children and at higher risk of entering kindergarten without critical early literacy skills. Thus, there is a pressing need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption among Latino children as well as interventions that promote reading out loud. Primary care is an optimal setting for such interventions. However, multiple demands on providers' time make it difficult to rely on in-person interventions. For this reason, it is critical to test intervention designs that do not rely directly on health care providers and that can be delivered remotely if needed. The investigators have developed two m-health interventions for Latino parents, one that promotes optimal beverage consumption patterns and one that promotes reading out loud to children. The purpose of this study is to test the impact of these interventions on child beverage intake patterns and the frequency with which parents read to children.

Conditions

Child Obesity; Child Development

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Beverage Intervention

Parents will watch a video that promotes optimal beverage practices for young children. Parents will receive that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Beverage Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Parents will watch a video that promotes optimal beverage practices for young children including discouraging consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice and encouraging consumption of water and unsweetened milk. Parents will receive 24 text messages over a 12 week period that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Reading Intervention

Parents will watch a video that promotes reading to children. Parents will receive text messages that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Reading Intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Parents will watch a video that promotes reading to children and includes specific ideas and techniques for how to make reading interactive and engaging. Parents will receive 24 text messages over a 12 week period that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Interventions

Beverage Intervention

Parents will watch a video that promotes optimal beverage practices for young children including discouraging consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice and encouraging consumption of water and unsweetened milk. Parents will receive 24 text messages over a 12 week period that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Reading Intervention

Parents will watch a video that promotes reading to children and includes specific ideas and techniques for how to make reading interactive and engaging. Parents will receive 24 text messages over a 12 week period that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Parent identifies child as Latino/a/x
• Child age 1 to 5 (12 to 59 months)
• Parent has a cell phone that can receive text messages
• Parent speak English or Spanish

Exclusion Criteria

• Child does not feed by mouth

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 59 Months
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Amy L Beck, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Locations

San Francisco General Hospital Children's Health Center

San Francisco, California, United States

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

United States

Central Contacts

Amy Beck, MD, MPH

Role: CONTACT

amy.beck@ucsf.edu

(415) 476-3368

Facility Contacts

Amy L Beck, MD MPH

Role: primary

amy.beck@ucsf.edu

415-476-3368

Other Identifiers

20-30664

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id