Improving the Eating Habits of Mother and Her Infant Via Sugar Reduction

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a health education program incorporating sugar sweetened beverage and juice (SSB/J) reduction and home water delivery affects maternal and infant risk for obesity by randomizing mother-infant dyads to one of three 24-month interventions: Group 1 (control): standard health education program only; Group 2 (translation): health education program focused on sugar reduction; and Group 3 (efficacy): health education program focused on sugar reduction and bottled water delivery. The intervention program will be delivered by trained health educators during in-person home visits, or virtually via phone or video calls.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03141346

Run by

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

People needed

211

Starts

2017-09-21

Expected to finish

2023-10-21

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 59. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mothers who self-identify as Hispanic
• Mothers who have or have had singleton births
• Mothers will be recruited prior to their infant's birth or up to 1-month postpartum
• Mothers must be able/willing to understand the procedures of the study, and must be able to read English or Spanish at a 5th grade level
• Mothers who are habitual consumers of sugar sweetened beverages and juices

You may not qualify if…

• Physician diagnosis of a major medical illness (including type 1 or type 2 diabetes) or eating disorder in mothers
• Physical, mental, or cognitive issues that prevent participation
• Chronic use of any medication that may affect body weight or composition, insulin resistance, or lipid profiles
• Current smoking (more than 1 cigarette in the past week) or use of other recreational drugs
• Clinical diagnosis of gestational diabetes
• Pre-term/low birth weight infants, or diagnosis of any fetal abnormalities
• Mothers less than 18 years of age at the time of delivery will not be eligible as to avoid potential confounding from those subjects who might still be completing adolescent growth

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, United States

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