Mothers And careGivers Investing in Children

Summary

The incidence of childhood obesity in the United States has steadily increased over the past 30 years but has begun to level off in recent years. Epidemiological evidence indicates that obesity may transmitted across multiple generations. The current study seeks to: 1) evaluate the extent to which mothers and other important caregivers affect their mothers' parenting; 2) examine whether an intervention aimed at improving diet quality and enhancing responsive feeding to improves parental responsivity and feeding behavior and infants' weight trajectories over time; 3) examine the effects of early life feeding and caregiver sensitivity on health and development; and 4) examine feasibility of food distribution along with the feeding intervention.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood
• Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Obesity Prevention Group

Parents will be provided with responsive feeding coaching to help them recognize hunger and satiety cues and nutrition coaching that involves recommending a sequence of introducing complementary foods that corresponds with food textures and feeding styles, breast/bottle weaning, healthy snacking and hands on demonstrations for healthy food options.

BEHAVIORAL

Obesity Prevention Group + Food Boxes

Parents will be provided with responsive feeding coaching to help them recognize hunger and satiety cues and nutrition coaching that involves recommending a sequence of introducing complementary foods that corresponds with food textures and feeding styles, breast/bottle weaning, healthy snacking and hands on demonstrations for healthy food options. Parents will also be provided with grocery items (fruits, vegetables, meat) prior to each intervention visit to facilitate a healthy family diet.

BEHAVIORAL

Infant Safety and Injury Prevention Group

Parents will be provided with information about safe sleeping, car seats, baby-proofing, etc., delivered during home visits, newsletters, and reinforcing text messages.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• St. David's Foundation

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Cattlemen's Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Egg Nutrition Center

  collaborator OTHER

• National Pork Board

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Texas at Austin

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Deborah Jacobvitz, PhD · University of Texas at Austin

• Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD · University of Texas at Austin

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

0 Years

Max Age

90 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-11-14

Primary Completion

2026-05-31

Completion

2026-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations