NCT06795490

Families in Balance: Enhancing Household Routines and Reducing Early Childhood Obesity Among Families With Low-income

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will evaluate the effects of two different approaches to support healthy family mealtime, sleep, and screentime routines: A parent leader-guided online program that promotes parent and child self-regulation as a means to improve healthy family routines versus an asynchronous program that provides parents information about healthy family routines. Families will be randomly assigned to either of these programs and changes in parent and child outcomes will be evaluated.

Conditions

• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Online program	Families in Balance Online is a 6-week online program that includes 6 weekly group discussions and 3 individual support sessions, all held over Zoom. Program activities will focus on improving parent and child self-regulation as a means to encourage healthy family mealtime, sleep, and screentime routines. Participants will engage in in person and online data collection activities to understand whether the program is impactful.
BEHAVIORAL	Control Condition	Families in Balance is an asynchronous program in which participants will be sent materials weekly over 6 weeks to encourage healthy family mealtime, sleep, and screentime routines. Participants will engage in in person and online data collection activities to understand whether the program is impactful.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-31
• Primary completion: 2027-02-01
• Completion: 2027-02-01
• First posted: 2025-01-28
• Last updated: 2026-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States