In-home Obesity Prevention to Reach Low-income Infants

Summary

Existing obesity prevention efforts have had limited success among underserved, low-income children. This study capitalizes on the strengths of a nationwide ongoing Home Visitation Program (HVP), which serves at-risk, low-income, ethnically/racially diverse mothers and their infants, to test the effectiveness of delivering obesity prevention as part of their weekly, in-home services. The study will evaluate whether the integration of an obesity prevention enhancement module into existing HVP services, reduces the risk and incidence of obesity and associated risk factors in mothers and infants, compared to the provision of standard home visitation services. The study also focuses on the role of maternal factors (maternal diet, physical activity, food insecurity and feeding practices) and social factors (social network support) as mechanisms operating on infant outcomes.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Obesity, Childhood
• Obesity; Familial

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Standard HVP Curriculum

Treatment in the control arm includes the content and services typically provided by the home visitation partner, which is focused on strengthening children's cognitive skills, early literacy skills, social/emotional and physical development.

BEHAVIORAL

Obesity Prevention

Obesity prevention curriculum program targets 4 key behaviors (physical activity, increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, decreasing sugary beverages, and decreasing fried foods) aimed at reducing obesity risk in mothers and children. The module will also include weekly activity opportunities to develop social networks that foster healthy eating and physical activity.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Antelope Valley Partners for Health

  collaborator OTHER

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

  collaborator NIH

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Southern California

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Kayla de la Haye, PhD · University of Southern California

• Sarah-Jeanne Salvy, PhD · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

2 Months

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-11-01

Primary Completion

2023-01-30

Completion

2023-05-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations