Mothers' Action Project for Child Health

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Conditions studied: Dental Caries, Obesity Risk

In brief

This randomized controlled trial will recruit Bangladeshi mothers and their young children into a 12 month intervention that provides child health and oral health education and seeks to build social networks among mothers.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06753669

Run by

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

People needed

460

Starts

2026-02-01

Expected to finish

2029-03-30

Last updated by the study team

2026-04-14

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 45. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mother:
• Age >=18;
• Speaks and reads/writes Bengali or Hindi/Urdu;
• Mother born in a South Asian country;
• Mother is primary caretaker of child
• Child:
• Aged >=12 and <=48 months
• Has Medicaid or CHIP (NYS health plan for low income families not qualifying for Medicaid)

You may not qualify if…

• Mother:
• Unable to provide informed consent,
• Lack of availability--either plans to travel for > 1 month during 12 month initial study period or other barriers to attendance;
• Mother has exclusionary health condition--either intellectual/cognitive or medical.
• Child:
• Weighed < 5lbs at birth,
• Has an exclusionary health condition and/or is taking long term (>1 m) antibiotics;
• Not the youngest eligible child in family

Where it is running

• UMass Chan Medical School - Remote field office — New York, New York, United States (enrolling)

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