NCT02052518

Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program

Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program: Building Better Families and Communities

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 57 (actual)
• Sponsor: Connecticut Children's Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is proposed on behalf of the Hartford Childhood Wellness Alliance, a 107 member, 35 group organization whose goal is to improve the health of children in Hartford, CT. In a randomized control trial, the primary aim of this study is to test the initial efficacy of a program of enhanced home visitation with neighborhood and community support to change maternal behaviors related to infant nutrition (sweetened beverage/juice consumption, breastfeeding and introduction of solids), parenting skills (establishing routines around sleep, reading cues for hunger, satiety, television time) and family wellness (improving the home food environment, enhancing physical activity). The investigators hypothesize that at 12 months of age, infants in the intervention arm will drink less sugar sweetened beverages/juices, will have ingested solids at an older age, will have been breastfed longer and more exclusively than infants in the control arm and will have less TV viewing, more established sleep routines and greater soothability (primary outcomes).

Detailed description

See Manuscript: 125. Cloutier MM, Wiley J, Wang Z, Grant A, Gorin AA. The Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (ECHO): An ecologically-based intervention delivered by home visitors for newborns and their mothers. BMC Public Health, 15:584 PMID 26073106, 2015.

Conditions

• Body Weight Changes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental	These participants will receive the enhanced intervention including decision support and problem solving skills in addition to the standard of care for the individuals in the Nuturing Family Network Home Visition Program

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2014-02-03
• Last updated: 2017-03-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States