Nutrition Knowledge for Spanish-speaking Parents

Summary

Providing child nutrition information is a major goal of every pediatric well-child visit. Unfortunately, due to a wide array of issues, doing this effectively during clinic visits is challenging and insufficient. It is because of this that some have looked for innovative ways to enhance the delivery of this information. One such way is the use of touch screen computer programs containing nutritional information. Several studies have documented the value of patients receiving health information in such a manner.

Nonetheless, the use of this medium has not been well studied in Spanish-speaking care providers of young children. The investigators recently conducted a study that evaluated user's perception of the usability of such technology, finding that most users thought that the touchscreen was easy to use, despite their low computer confidence levels. The investigators also evaluated the impact of using nutrition modules on user's nutrition knowledge, finding that immediately after use; participant's nutrition knowledge was improved. I now propose to evaluate this technology further through a 4 armed randomized controlled trial. The goal here is to evaluate the longer term impact of the educational modules on nutrition knowledge and the impact, if any, of additional web access to the modules, on longer term knowledge. A secondary goal is to better understand nutritional habits in this population and perceptions of weight.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Dental Caries

Interventions

OTHER

Kiosk

Touchscreen computer containing three educational modules in Spanish on infant/toddler juice intake, milk, and solid/foods

OTHER

paper

Participants will receive a paper handout with nutrition educational information.

OTHER

Kiosk PLUS paper

Individuals will use the 3 computer modules on a touchscreen and receive the information on a paper handout.

OTHER

Kiosk PLUS web

Participants will utilize the 3 modules on the touchscreen computer and be given a piece of paper that includes information on how to see this information again on the internet. Participants will be asked to view the modules on the web.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Johns Hopkins University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Darcy A Thompaon, MD, MPH · Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-02-28

Primary Completion

2011-09-30

Completion

2011-09-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations