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Families in Balance: Enhancing Household Routines and Reducing Early Childhood Obesity Among Families With Low-income

NCT06795490 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2026-04-06

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Summary

This study will evaluate the effects of two different approaches to support healthy family mealtime, sleep, and screentime routines: A parent leader-guided online program that promotes parent and child self-regulation as a means to improve healthy family routines versus an asynchronous program that provides parents information about healthy family routines. Families will be randomly assigned to either of these programs and changes in parent and child outcomes will be evaluated.

Conditions

  • Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Online program

Families in Balance Online is a 6-week online program that includes 6 weekly group discussions and 3 individual support sessions, all held over Zoom. Program activities will focus on improving parent and child self-regulation as a means to encourage healthy family mealtime, sleep, and screentime routines. Participants will engage in in person and online data collection activities to understand whether the program is impactful.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Condition

Families in Balance is an asynchronous program in which participants will be sent materials weekly over 6 weeks to encourage healthy family mealtime, sleep, and screentime routines. Participants will engage in in person and online data collection activities to understand whether the program is impactful.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Katherine Bauer, PhD · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
2 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-03-31
Primary Completion
2027-02-28
Completion
2027-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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