Deimplementation of Inappropriate Feeding Practices in Early Care and Education Settings

Enrolling by invitation · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Obesity, Childhood

In brief

Arkansas and Louisiana have among the highest rates of adult obesity in the United States at 38.7% and 38.6%, respectively. Prevention and intervention efforts are needed to reduce the number of children who will become obese adults and suffer the host of negative health consequences that accompany it. This proposal will develop and test strategies to stop the use of detrimental feeding practices by early childhood educators which promote unhealthy weight trajectories, inappropriate eating behaviors and poor dietary outcomes for children.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07107321

Run by

Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute

People needed

2640

Starts

2025-08-12

Expected to finish

2029-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-10-02

Who can join

Age: 3 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Sites within a 100-mile radius of staff offices serving 12+ children ages 3 to 5 years
• Agreeing to participate in data collection
• Sites will serve meals.
• All classrooms at a site will receive the same deimplementation strategies and participate in data collection. We will select one classroom at random per site to participate in the collection of child outcomes (N= 264 classrooms, 15 children per classroom= 1320 children total).

You may not qualify if…

• We will exclude sites that have participated in intervention studies with our team in the last 3 years.

Where it is running

• Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

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