NCT03641716

Family Empowerment for Enhanced Development

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the feasibility and preliminary effects of offering the Mealtime PREP intervention to low-income families with young children. All enrolled families will receive the Mealtime PREP intervention in the home to evaluate the effects on child nutrition.

Detailed description

Children have not been spared from the obesity epidemic. There is a great need for innovative interventions to help families build healthy habits early in life for obesity prevention. Low-income preschoolers have a disproportionately high rate of childhood obesity, and their families face complex barriers to healthy behavior change. This proposed pilot study will examine the feasibility of delivering the Promoting Routines of Exploration and Play during Mealtime (Mealtime PREP) intervention in a sample of low-income families with young children (ages 2-5). Our parent-mediated intervention is designed to promote healthy dietary variety using routine family meals, positive reinforcement, social modeling, and food exploration and play. By harnessing the behavior change capacity of behavioral activation to alter daily mealtimes incrementally, parents are empowered to overcome barriers to healthy habit formation. Each family will participate in a six-week intervention that is delivered by occupational therapy clinicians in the home environment. Each session will last approximately one hour and include individualized parent-training and a parent-led mealtime with direct feedback from the clinician. We planned to screen up to 100 potential parent and child participants, with a plan to deliver intervention to 20 child participants.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood
• Feeding Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mealtime PREP Intervention	Each session will include didactic elements and skills training along with skills practice and feedback. Parents will learn to build structured mealtime routines, manage child mealtime behavior, and incorporate exploration and play into routines.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-26
• Primary completion: 2020-01-02
• Completion: 2020-01-02
• First posted: 2018-08-22
• Last updated: 2021-11-12
• Results posted: 2021-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States