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Promoting Food Acceptance Through Positive Parenting: the Play and Grow Study

NCT06074926 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2024-08-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Approximately one half of adults and one-fifth of children have obesity, including 14% of 2-5-year-olds. Early obesity prevention is essential as children who are overweight by age 5 are at increased risk for later obesity. Dietary intake is inextricably linked to weight status, and the majority of young children fail to meet intake recommendations, with socioeconomically disadvantaged and racial/ethnic minority children at increased risk of poor diet quality. However, children's liking of healthier foods predicts their intake, and children can learn to like healthier foods via experience. The current study brings together evidence from the parenting and learning literatures to: 1) examine effects of a novel learning strategy leveraging positive parent-child interactions on 3-5-year-old children's vegetable acceptance and dietary intake, as well as to explore 2) individual differences in learning strategy effects.

Conditions

  • Obesity, Childhood
  • Overweight, Childhood
  • Overnutrition
  • Pediatric Obesity
  • Eating, Healthy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Associative Conditioning

There will be 3 planned activities per week (9 total) within play kits provided to families. Children will first taste their assigned target vegetable and then complete an activity with their parent following provided instructions. Activity instructions will include positive parenting skills adapted from evidence-based parenting programs (i.e., Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Triple-P) designed to promote positive parent-child interactions.

BEHAVIORAL

Repeated Exposure

There will be 3 planned exposures per week (9 total). Exposures will include only individual tastes of the child's assigned target vegetable.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • State University of New York at Buffalo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, PhD · State University of New York at Buffalo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-30
Primary Completion
2024-08-01
Completion
2024-08-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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