NCT03071419

A Nutrition and Parenting Program for Fathers and Their Pre-school Age Children

Father-Focused Nutrition and Parenting Program to Help Prevent Childhood Obesity in Preschool Age Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Connecticut · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This pilot study evaluates the feasibility and impact of a father-focused childhood obesity prevention program on paternal food-related parenting practices, mealtime behaviors and father/child nutrition and physical activity behaviors. Half of participants (low-income father and child dyads) will receive an intervention immediately while the other half of participants will serve as a wait-list control group and receive the intervention at a later date.

Detailed description

All participants (low-income father and child dyads) will receive an 8 session (2 hours/session) (DAD) including community-based, hands-on, nutrition and parent education intervention with between-session technology enhancements. Dyads will be randomly assigned within groups of 10 to DAD or a wait-list control group (DELAY). Assessments will be conducted at pre, post and 1 month post including a subset of data from cohabiting mothers to assess moderating influences on outcomes.

Conditions

• Pediatric Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nutrition and Parenting Intervention	The proposed intervention will evaluate and explore the unique influences that low-income fathers have on their preschool age children's obesogenic behaviors and obesity risk.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2019-04-30
• First posted: 2017-03-06
• Last updated: 2019-06-05

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States