Using Family-Based Approaches to Improve Healthy Eating for Southeast Asian Children

Summary

This small scale healthy eating study provides Southeast Asian families with children ages 6 to 11 with a family-based nutrition education, one-on-one interviews to help with motivation to eat health, text messaging, and coupons to purchase health foods and beverages. Since this is a small scale study that is a pilot intervention, the main goal of this intervention is to determine if it is feasible, meaning, can it be done. The second goal of this intervention is to determine if there are meaningful improvements in children's healthy eating patterns, body mass index and HbA1c. The third goal is to see if the intervention improves parent's diet quality, HbA1c and the home food environment. These study findings will be used to determine whether a larger clinical trial is needed, and if so, how it should be done.

Conditions

• Diet, Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Financial Incentives

For six months, families will receive weekly, $15 financial incentives to purchase healthy foods and beverages at a partnering Southeast Asian grocery store

BEHAVIORAL

Financial Incentives and Multilevel Multicomponent

For six months, families will receive weekly, $15 financial incentives to purchase healthy foods and beverages at a partnering Southeast Asian grocer store, in-person, group-based nutrition education with other Southeast Asian families, text messages and motivational interviewing

OTHER

School Engagement

For six months, families will attend in-person, group-based school engagement education with other Southeast Asian families designed to improve youths' academic outcomes. Families will receive text messages and motivational interviews. At the end of the six months, families will receive the equivalent of the six months worth of weekly, $15 financial incentives.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Connecticut

  collaborator OTHER

• Center for Southeast Asians

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

  collaborator NIH

• Brown University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Akilah Dulin, PhD · Brown University

• Kim Gans, PhD, MPH, LDN · University of Connecticut

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

6 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-04-12

Primary Completion

2025-01-12

Completion

2025-06-18

Countries

• United States

Study Locations