Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Summary

In 2003, Surgeon General Richard Carmona suggested that low health literacy is "one of the largest contributors to our nation's epidemic of overweight and obesity." Over 26% of preschool children are now overweight or obese, and children who are overweight by age 24 months are five times as likely as non-overweight children to become overweight adolescents. The aim of the study is to assess the efficacy of a low-literacy/numeracy-oriented intervention aimed at teaching pediatric resident physicians to promote healthy family lifestyles and prevent overweight among young children (age 0-2) and their families in under-resourced communities.

Conditions

• Obesity Prevention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Health Communication and Obesity Prevention

Pediatric residents will be training in effective health communication skills and given a literacy/numeracy sensitive toolkit (GreenLight) to use with parents during all well child visits from 2 months to 18 months.

BEHAVIORAL

Injury Prevention Arm

Pediatric residents will be trained to address injury prevention using the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) TIPP materials.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Miami

  collaborator OTHER

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  collaborator OTHER

• New York University

  collaborator OTHER

• Stanford University

  collaborator OTHER

• Duke University

  collaborator OTHER

• Vanderbilt University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Russell L Rothman, MD MPP · Vanderbilt University

• Lee Sanders, MD MPH · Stanford University

• Kori Flower, MD MS MPH · UNC Chapel Hill

• Shonna Yin, MD MS · NYU

• Alan Delamater, LP PhD · University of Miami

• Eliana Perrin, MD MPH · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

6 Weeks

Max Age

12 Weeks

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-04-28

Primary Completion

2014-10-01

Completion

2014-10-01

Countries

• United States

Study Locations