NCT03590301

Third Ward Wellness Study for Families

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Third Ward Wellness Study aims to pilot test a wellness program for families with toddler age children. Participants will be recruited from the Third Ward neighborhood in Houston, TX and then randomly assigned to one of two wellness programs. The goal of both programs is to enable and inspire parents to help their toddler age children develop healthy habits that will stay with them through life. Participating families will complete an assessment batter before and after the program. Both programs will meet once per week for 10 weeks.

Detailed description

Dietary and activity habits begin to develop in early childhood. Parents have the most influence on children's health behaviors at this age. Many parents, particularly those from lower income and underserved areas may benefit from programs to inspire and enable them to raise their toddler age children with good health habits. The experimental group was developed to help parents instill healthy habits in their children through a healthy home environment. This study will pilot test the experimental group among parent-toddler dyads residing in Greater Third Ward neighborhoods, where \> 80% of the residents are AA or Hispanic and 35%-54% have annual household incomes \<$25,000. The aims are to ascertain 1) recruitment and retention barriers and facilitators, 2) treatment success barriers and facilitators, and 3) the estimated effect sizes of outcomes to inform a fully powered RCT. The exploratory hypotheses are that compared to those in the control group, parents in the experimental group will have greater increases in positive parenting skills (Comprehensive General Parenting Questionnaire), and toddlers will have greater increases in indicators of a healthy home environments, diets and activity habits (MVPA, sedentary activity, and sleep).

Conditions

• Child Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	FUNPALs Playgroup	Based on Self-Determination Theory, the FUNPALs Playgroup aims to enable and inspire parents to improve their toddlers dietary intake and physical activity habits through authoritative parenting, structured feeding practices, and a healthy home environment. Playgroups will include open but structured experiential learning activities, free play, and instruction/discussion.
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Toddler Parent Group	The parent class will serve as our instruction only control group. Parents in this class will receive information about nutrition and activity recommendations regarding their toddler age children and will discuss it in a group with other parents. No experiential learning activities, information about parenting, or children will be involved in this class.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-08
• Primary completion: 2019-05-29
• Completion: 2019-06-10
• First posted: 2018-07-18
• Last updated: 2020-04-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States