Effectiveness of an IMB-based Intervention for Reducing Sweetened Beverages Consumption in Preschool Children
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Conditions studied: Childhood Obesity
In brief
Sugar-sweetened beverages and over consumption of 100% fruit juice add unneeded calories to the diets of children, potentially leading to overweight. As children's diets are extensions of their parent's behaviors, the investigators propose to implement a nutrition education intervention based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) behavior change model using parents as the primary agent of change. This project will evaluate an intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages in preschool children from low-resource families. The proposed research uses a randomized control group design involving 20 parents of 3-5-year-old children at 20 sites (n=400) over 3 years. The investigators will randomly assign sites to two experimental conditions: 1) 10-week sugar-sweetened beverage intervention and 2) 10-week sham education control. Data collection for the two groups will be conducted at baseline and 1 weeks and 6 months post intervention. Measures to be collected include and IMB survey, home beverage inventory (HBI), weekend food recall, and anthropometrics. Education programs will be available to all parents at sites through interactive display boards with 5-10-minute lessons. Each semester 8 students (n=32) will enroll in an experiential course aimed at increasing students' cultural competency. For 10 weeks, students will attend classroom training and spend 2 hours twice a week at sites implementing the nutrition education program.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03957148
- Run by
- UConn Health
- People needed
- 484
- Starts
- 2008-05-07
- Expected to finish
- 2014-10-19
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-09-26
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Parent-child dyads where the children attend a center-based early childcare center in Hartford, CT that is part of the City of Hartford sponsored School Readiness Network.
- Easy access to a telephone
You may not qualify if…
- If more than two children are eligible, the oldest child would be part of the study.
- Children with medical issues that restrict normal eating.
Where it is running
- UConn Health — Farmington, Connecticut, United States
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