NCT06981429

A Positive Food Parenting Intervention to Promote Healthy Growth in Children at Risk for Obesity

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (estimated)
• Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is the pilot of a 12 - week positive food parenting intervention focused on structure-based and autonomy promoting practices. The intervention aims to give parents the tools to promote healthy child growth and improve diet quality. The investigators are piloting to assess feasibility and efficacy of the intervention through examining participant retention, impact on parent feeding practices, and impact on parent and child diet quality.

Conditions

• Pediatric Obesity
• Nutrition Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nourish to Flourish: The Power of Positive Food Parenting	This intervention focuses on increasing diet quality and parent use of positive food parenting practices with the goal of promoting healthy child growth). This will be a 12 - week, 12 session study. Sessions 1 and 12 will consist of collection baseline and post-intervention data. Sessions 2 - 11 will be a mix of online - group sessions and individual online or in - person sessions (based on participant preference). The group sessions are focused on principal investigator presentation of the intervention curriculum and group discussion. The individual sessions are focused on goal setting, coping planning, and working through individual situations with a trained coach.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-19
• Primary completion: 2026-02-26
• Completion: 2026-02-26
• First posted: 2025-05-20
• Last updated: 2025-05-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States