Learning to Love Mealtime Together
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Infant Obesity, Parenting, Feeding Behavior
In brief
Infancy is an important target period for obesity prevention because once obese as an infant, the relative risk of remaining obese appears to rise with increasing age at great cost to both individuals and society. The ability to self-regulate energy intake (eating when hungry and stopping when full) is vital to obesity prevention and it is thought that this ability can be derailed by a chronic mismatch between parental feeding behavior and the infant's state (feeding in the absence of hunger and/or feeding beyond fullness). The study will test a novel intervention to help parents and pre-verbal infants better understand one another during feeding and it will offer new insight into how self-regulation of energy intake develops during infancy.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04502979
- Run by
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- People needed
- 71
- Starts
- 2017-09-26
- Expected to finish
- 2019-04-25
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-09-11
Who can join
Age: 0 and older, up to 1. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Parent Inclusion:
- Must be able to read, understand, and speak English or Spanish and be willing to be randomized and participate in data collection.
- Those who are randomized into the experimental group must also be willing to learn ASL specific to communication of hunger, thirst, and fullness.
- Infant Inclusion:
- Aged at least 3 months at the time of recruitment
You may not qualify if…
- Parent Exclusion:
- > 50 years of age
- Infant Exclusion:
- Aged more than 9 months at the time of recruitment
- born more than 6 weeks earlier than their estimated due date,
- have any developmental delays or disabilities that make it difficult for them to eat, drink, or communicate,
- attend regular daycare,
- will be younger than 4 months or older than 9 months at the time of the first ASL training.
Where it is running
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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