Coordination of Care Between Pediatricians and Women Infants & Children Nutritionists

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Childhood Obesity

In brief

WEE Baby Care is a 6 month intervention that coordinates care across multiple settings- health care clinics and WIC clinics on responsive parenting practices to increase parenting competence thereby preventing infant rapid weight gain. The investigators will recruit mother/infant dyads in Central PA, who participate in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and receive clinical care from a Geisinger pediatrician participating in this study.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03482908

Run by

Penn State University

People needed

289

Starts

2016-07-06

Expected to finish

2019-01-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-03-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 55. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• mother is English speaking, infant is a singleton birth, infant birthweight greater than or equal to 2500g, infant gestational age at least 37 weeks, infant no more than 2 months old, no plans for baby to be put up for adoption, no congenital or neonatal conditions that would affect growth, mother has no major morbidities that would affect postpartum care, eligible and/or enrolled in a WIC program in central PA, infant pediatrician is a Geisinger physician in a pediatric service line in Luzerne county

You may not qualify if…

• non-English speaking, mother is planning to leave the county where she enrolled within 6-9 months, mother is less than 18 years of age, mother is older than 55 years of age

Where it is running

• Geisinger Health Systems — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States

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