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Family Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles
Summary
Consumption of sweetened beverages, media-viewing, and physical activity patterns are often established during early childhood, and family-based obesity interventions show effectiveness in shaping healthy behaviors and weight outcomes for young children, including Latino children. Missing from these interventions, however, are methods to increase accessibility and dissemination to multiple family caregivers. The proposed work will use a randomized study design to evaluate the impact a family-based early childhood obesity intervention for Latino families that incorporates evidence-based strategies of in-person childhood obesity interventions, mobile phones, and leverages important determinants of Latino health (e.g. familism, language) in order to decrease ethnic disparities in childhood obesity and cardiovascular risk.
Official title: A Hybrid Mobile Phone Family Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
2 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
182
Start Date
2023-11-06
Completion Date
2026-12-31
Last Updated
2025-03-10
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Family-Based Childhood Obesity Intervention
The study will focus on the effectiveness of a community- and family-based intervention that will involve multiple family caregivers. The intervention will include in-person and mobile phone components focusing on Latino caregivers of young children, to support evidence-based and age appropriate dietary, media-viewing, and physical activity practices among 2- to 5-year old children.
Locations (1)
Head Start
Los Angeles, California, United States