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Learning to Love Mealtime Together

NCT04502979 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 71

Last updated 2020-09-11

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Summary

Infancy is an important target period for obesity prevention because once obese as an infant, the relative risk of remaining obese appears to rise with increasing age at great cost to both individuals and society. The ability to self-regulate energy intake (eating when hungry and stopping when full) is vital to obesity prevention and it is thought that this ability can be derailed by a chronic mismatch between parental feeding behavior and the infant's state (feeding in the absence of hunger and/or feeding beyond fullness). The study will test a novel intervention to help parents and pre-verbal infants better understand one another during feeding and it will offer new insight into how self-regulation of energy intake develops during infancy.

Conditions

  • Infant Obesity
  • Parenting
  • Feeding Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Responsive Feeding Training

Families will receive 4 monthly 1-hour sessions: (1) Signing with infants; (2) infant communication and responsive feeding; (3) nutrition, portion sizes, and neophobia; and, (4) infant intentionality.

Sponsors & Collaborators

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

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eric Hodges, PhD, FNP-BC, FAAN · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Months
Max Age
9 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-26
Primary Completion
2019-04-11
Completion
2019-04-25

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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