Coordination of Care Between Pediatricians and Women Infants & Children Nutritionists

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Early healthy lifestyles

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

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

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

  collaborator FED

• Geisinger Clinic

  collaborator OTHER

• Pennsylvania Bureau of Women, Infants & Children (WIC)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Penn State University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jennifer S Savage, PhD · Penn State University

• Lisa Bailey-Davis, DEd · Geisinger Health Systems

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

55 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2016-07-06

Primary Completion

2018-12-15

Completion

2019-01-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations