Nutrition Disorder, Pediatric Obesity
Conditions
Keywords
children, parenting, parent feeding practices, food parenting, obesity risk, positive food parenting, autonomy promotion, structure - based food parenting
Brief 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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALNourish 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.
Sponsors
State University of New York at Buffalo
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Intervention model description
Participants will either be assigned to the control group or the experimental group. The control group will participate in a 10 - session 'promoting healthy development in middle childhood' program. The experimental group will be receiving the intervention.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
5 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
PARENT CRITERIA: Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> 18 years old. * Have a child between the ages of 5 - 11 who is at risk for obesity (child BMI percentile \> 85th) or parent it concerned about their child developing overweight or obesity * Low use of positive food parenting (Defined as: low reports of individual nutrition education/ knowledge OR reports low levels of structure, involvement, or encouragement in their food parenting practices) * Must be responsible for feeding their eligible child at least 50% of the time. * Fluent in English. * Have access to internet and a Zoom compatible device.
Exclusion criteria
* Age is \< 18 years old. Their child is determined ineligible (based on BMI percentile and age). * Does not report low use of positive food parenting (as defined above). * Is responsible for feeding their eligible child \< 50% of the time. * Not fluent in English. * Does not have access to internet and a Zoom compatible device. * On medication that could influence their eating or feeding behaviors. CHILD CRITERIA: Inclusion Criteria: * Their parent/ guardian is eligible and participating in the study. * Ages 5 - 11 * Is not current diagnosed with a clinical eating disorder (ED). * Is not on any medications, or have any conditions, that could influence the child's taste, appetite, or olfactory sensory responsiveness.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Parent use of structure - based and autonomy - promoting parent feeding practices. | Session 1 (week 1) to Session 12 (week 12) | Compare responses to validated questionnaires measuring food parenting practices from session 1 to session 12. |
| Parent and Child Diet Quality | Session 1 (week 1) and Session 12 (week 12) | Compare change in parent and child healthy eating index (HEI) from session 1 to session 12. The healthy eating index (HEI) is a measure of how a participants diet aligns with the recommendations by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (Dietary Guidelines). Possible scores range from 0 (does not align at all with recommendations by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans) to 100 (perfectly aligns with recommendations by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans). Higher scores mean a better outcome. |
| Parent BMI and Child zBMI | Session 1 (week 1) and Session 12 (week 12) | Change in parent BMI and child zBMI from session 1 to session 12. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORKatherine N Balantekin, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
Outcome results
None listed