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Effectiveness of an IMB-based Intervention for Reducing Sweetened Beverages Consumption in Preschool Children

NCT03957148 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 484

Last updated 2019-09-26

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Summary

Sugar-sweetened beverages and over consumption of 100% fruit juice add unneeded calories to the diets of children, potentially leading to overweight. As children's diets are extensions of their parent's behaviors, the investigators propose to implement a nutrition education intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) behavior change model using parents as the primary agent of change. This project will evaluate an intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages in preschool children from low-resource families. The proposed research uses a randomized control group design involving 20 parents of 3-5-year-old children at 20 sites (n=400) over 3 years. The investigators will randomly assign sites to two experimental conditions: 1) 10-week sugar-sweetened beverage intervention and 2) 10-week sham education control. Data collection for the two groups will be conducted at baseline and 1 weeks and 6 months post intervention. Measures to be collected include and IMB survey, home beverage inventory (HBI), weekend food recall, and anthropometrics. Education programs will be available to all parents at sites through interactive display boards with 5-10-minute lessons. Each semester 8 students (n=32) will enroll in an experiential course aimed at increasing students' cultural competency. For 10 weeks, students will attend classroom training and spend 2 hours twice a week at sites implementing the nutrition education program.

Conditions

  • Childhood Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sugar-sweetened beverage reduction education for preschool children

Participants in the SSB-IMB program will receive 10 weeks of SSB related nutrition education at their child's preschool. Each week a different lesson pertaining to parental information, motivation, or behavioral skills related to SSBs will be presented via an interactive display board. Twice a week, two student educators will stand by display boards for two hours and deliver the lessons that will last 5-10 minutes with each parent. These displays will include an activity for parents to apply knowledge and skills learned during the short lesson. Educators will also provide parents with informational handouts pertaining to each lesson to reinforce concepts learned. Display board education is flexible, so that if a parent arrives while another parent is receiving education, the second educator can begin the lesson with the new parent. Multiple parents can participate in a lesson at the same time. Groups of 2-3 parents can review the lesson together, learning from each other.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Connecticut

    collaborator OTHER

  • UConn Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ann M Ferris, PhD · UConn Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-05-07
Primary Completion
2014-10-19
Completion
2014-10-19

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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