Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children (HC2) Phase II

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Pediatric Obesity, Obesity

In brief

One in four U.S. children under the age of 5 years old are either overweight or obese with ethnic-minority children being disproportionately affected. Low-income preschool children, many from ethnic minority backgrounds, receive childcare in federal/state subsidized centers where daily meals are provided. Nationally, the Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) organization is responsible for rating the quality of childcare centers. However, nutrition and physical activity policy standards have not been incorporated into QRIS childcare center policies. Therefore, the goal of this project is to address the 2014 AFRI program area priority of Childhood Obesity Prevention by building on the phase I "Healthy Caregivers, Healthy Children (HC2)" NRI/AFRI funded project (2010-2013), in partnership with the Miami Dade County Cooperative Extension team, to evaluate the program via randomized-controlled trial outcomes, and deliver an evidence-based effective childcare center-based program/toolkit. This project (phase II) will expand HC2 Phase I findings by transferring the evidence-based HC2 program/toolkit to QRIS childcare centers via a train-the-trainers (TTT) model. The following specific aims are proposed; (1) to evaluate the TTT model of delivery for the evidence-based HC2 toolkit's effectiveness versus an attention control on parent and teacher adoption of healthy lifestyle role modeling behaviors, and policy integration; (2) to evaluate the impact of a TTT delivery model versus an attention control on child body composition and short- and long-term behavioral health outcomes, and (3) to disseminate the HC2 early childhood obesity prevention toolkit TTT model within the QRIS early childhood network at the Miami Dade County-level.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02697565

Run by

University of Miami

People needed

2289

Starts

2015-04-01

Expected to finish

2019-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-03-07

Who can join

Age: 2 and older, up to 5. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• QC centers must meet the following criteria to be included: (1) have > 30 children ages 2-5 enrolled; (2) Serve low income families; (3) be a part of the USDA food program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligible; (3) Reflect the ethnic diversity of the MDC Public School System (63 percent Hispanic, 19 percent African American, 18 percent white); and (4) Center directors agree to participate and sign a letter of commitment (see Documents of Collaboration).

You may not qualify if…

• Centers with a high prevalence of special needs children.

Where it is running

• University of Miami — Miami, Florida, United States

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