Parent Mentor Interventions for Early Childhood Obesity

Conditions

Obesity, Childhood

Brief summary

The purpose of this clinical trial is to identify the most effective strategy for intervention to change behaviors and affect weight status in obese children 2-5 years of age within the context of early childhood education centers.

Detailed description

The primary aim is to test an intervention to disseminate and promote the adoption of positive deviance behaviors among parents of obese Hispanic children using peer mentors. This trial will evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of this approach in reducing adiposity among a high-risk population of children. Our central hypothesis is that children randomized to the intervention with a parent mentor using positive deviance methods with have a greater reduction in adiposity as measured by body mass index (BMI) compared with a parent mentor using traditional education or a control receiving usual education.

Byron A. Foster, Hector A. Olvera‐Alvarez, Thalia Padilla, Jerrold S. Meyer

Childhood Obesity2022-08-291 citations

10.1089/chi.2022.0103

Growing Healthy Together: A Randomized Clinical Trial Using Parent Mentors for Early Childhood Obesity in Low-Income, Latino Families

Byron A. Foster, Kelsey Weinstein, Thalia Padilla, Cynthia Martínez, Diana Angeles-Ramos

Childhood Obesity2021-10-066 citations

10.1089/chi.2021.0165

Growing Healthy Together: protocol for a randomized clinical trial using parent mentors for early childhood obesity intervention in a Latino community.

Foster BA, Weinstein K, Shannon J.

2019-04-254 citations

10.1186/s13063-019-3342-3

Interventions

BEHAVIORALParent Mentor with Standard Education

Parent mentors will provide coaching based on the current guidelines around diet and physical activity

BEHAVIORALParent Mentor with Positive Deviance

Parent mentors will provide coaching based on findings from the positive deviance study

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

2 Years to 5 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* 2-5 years of age child, Hispanic ethnicity, attends the Head Start facility

Exclusion criteria

* any major medical disorder impairing growth or development

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
BMIz	6 months post-enrollment	standardized BMI for age and sex

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Self-efficacy	6 months post-enrollment	Parenting self-efficacy around specific topics

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed