NCT06319807

GrowWell - Responsive Bottle Feeding

Using Digital Health Technologies to Prevent Obesity Among Infants of Parents Receiving Nutrition Assistance Benefits.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 69 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall goal of this research is use digital health to augment the clinical encounter with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinicians and prevent rapid infant weight gain among children living in low-income households. Intervening on weight gain during infancy offers an opportunity to influence lifelong obesity risk. Using personalized motivational messages and targeted skills-training resources, the intervention will support parents and caregivers in adopting responsive feeding strategies. Knowledge gained from this project will be used to develop a future, larger grant submission focused on developing healthy feeding and eating habits among mother-infant dyads.

Detailed description

Assess the feasibility and acceptability of a digital intervention aimed at increasing responsive infant feeding behaviors, beginning 1 month postpartum and continuing through 3-months postpartum, among a prospective cohort of women receiving WIC benefits. Use qualitative methods to explore barriers and facilitators to participation in a digital infant feeding intervention among women receiving WIC benefits during early postpartum

Conditions

• Bottle Feeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Digital Health Intervention	Participants will receive: 1) behavior change goals, 2) self-monitoring with tailored feedback, and 3) skills training. We will use text messaging to administer the intervention pieces. At baseline, each participant will complete a series of surveys to gain background information. Throughout the study participants will report their goal adherence in response to a text messaging prompt and immediately receive tailored feedback. Text messages will be deployed daily with 2 check in messages per week; participants will receive tailored feedback based on their response.
BEHAVIORAL	Safety Control	Participants will receive: 1) behavior change goals, 2) self-monitoring with tailored feedback, and 3) skills training. We will use text messaging to administer the intervention pieces. At baseline, each participant will complete a series of surveys to gain background information. Throughout the study participants will report their goal adherence in response to a text messaging prompt and immediately receive tailored feedback. Text messages will be deployed daily with 2 check in messages per week; participants will receive tailored feedback based on their response.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-28
• Primary completion: 2025-08-18
• Completion: 2025-08-18
• First posted: 2024-03-20
• Last updated: 2025-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States