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A YouTube Curriculum for Children With Autism and Obesity

NCT06259539 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2024-02-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Parents as primary caregivers play an important role in shaping children's mealtime and eating behaviors; and in preventing weight gain. Conventionally, in-person, parent-implemented treatments have worked well for children with autism, however, post-COVID-19 pandemic there is a need for virtual, evidence-based training for parents to improve nutrition in children with autism and weight issues. This study aims to: a) increase self-efficacy among parents of children with autism and overweight or obesity to feed their children a healthy diet, b) improve parental nutrition knowledge and skills on how to feed their child with autism and overweight or obesity a healthier diet, c) improve their child's mealtime behaviors, and d) increase the child's dietary variety.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

YouTube nutrition education

For those in the intervention group, the YouTube training modules had step-by-step recipe demonstrations, strategies on how to get your child to eat more new foods, social stories, First-Then visual chart, and other nutrition education materials. All the videos were less than 5 minutes long, and parents were assigned 2 videos per week for 8 consecutive weeks. Parents answered 2 open-ended questions each week related to the educational materials they reviewed.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Woodcock Institute for the Advancement of Neurocognitive Research and Applied Practice

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Texas Woman's University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Miteshri D Prajapati, M.S · Texas Woman's University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-09-07
Primary Completion
2024-02-10
Completion
2024-02-13

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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