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Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children Nutrition
Sponsor: University of Miami
Summary
Using a randomized two-group, repeated measures experimental design, the goal of the proposed study is to investigate the efficacy of a 12-week nutrition and exercise education, physical activity, coping skills training, and home-based physical activity intervention in Hispanic women and their 3-5 year old children and 6 months of continued monthly contact to help overweight and obese Hispanic mothers improve adiposity, weight, health behaviors, and self-efficacy and their 3-5 year old children improve their adiposity and weight gain trajectory and health behaviors.
Official title: Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention With Hispanic Mothers and Their Young Children
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
3 Years - 50 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
578
Start Date
2019-02-08
Completion Date
2024-06-30
Last Updated
2026-05-08
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Nutrition and Physical Activity Intervention
Mothers. Twelve weekly classes for one hour focused on nutrition and exercise education and coping skills training followed by a forty five minute exercise class for mothers. Then they will return for one hour for continued support and a forty-five minute exercise class. Children. Twelve weekly classes for one hour focused on Color Me Healthy and one hour of free play. Then 6 monthly continued support classes where a Color Me Healthy class will be reviewed and they will have one hour of free play.
English for Second Language Intervention
Mothers. Control group mothers will receive 12 weekly English for Second Language classes for one hour and forty-five minutes. Then 6 monthly one hour and forty minute follow-up classes receiving English for Second Language material. Children. Control group children will receive 12 weekly one hour and forty five minutes of having books read to them. Followed by 6 monthly meetings for one hour and 45 minutes being read to and coloring with crayons.
Locations (1)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States