Multi-site Trial Using SMS to Improve Infant Weight

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

The goals of this multi-site clinical trial are to pilot test weekly SMS sent to parents/caregivers of infants to improve feeding practices and decrease excessive weight gain in infants who are participants of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program in Puerto Rico and Hawaii. The intervention consists of weekly SMS for 4 months to reinforce the feeding messages provided by WIC.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02903186

Run by

University of Puerto Rico

People needed

202

Starts

2016-01-01

Expected to finish

2016-08-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-05-29

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Caregiver age 18 years and older
• owner of a mobile phone with unrestricted SMS capability
• responsible for the care of the infant and willing to actively participate for the full duration of the study.

You may not qualify if…

• infants with special diets
• infants with limited mobility
• pre-term birth (<37 weeks)
• small or large for gestational age (birthweight <10th or >90th p)
• inability to consent to participate in the study
• unwillingness to be randomized and not being able to read

Where it is running

• University of Hawaii at Manoa — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus (UPR-MSC) — San Juan, Puerto Rico

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