Nutrition Knowledge for Spanish-speaking Parents

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Obesity; Dental Caries
• Interventions: Other: Kiosk; Other: paper; Other: Kiosk PLUS paper; Other: Kiosk PLUS web

• Registration Number: NCT01296945
• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

Brief Summary

Providing child nutrition information is a major goal of every pediatric well-child visit. Unfortunately, due to a wide array of issues, doing this effectively during clinic visits is challenging and insufficient. It is because of this that some have looked for innovative ways to enhance the delivery of this information. One such way is the use of touch screen computer programs containing nutritional information. Several studies have documented the value of patients receiving health information in such a manner.

Nonetheless, the use of this medium has not been well studied in Spanish-speaking care providers of young children. The investigators recently conducted a study that evaluated user's perception of the usability of such technology, finding that most users thought that the touchscreen was easy to use, despite their low computer confidence levels. The investigators also evaluated the impact of using nutrition modules on user's nutrition knowledge, finding that immediately after use; participant's nutrition knowledge was improved. I now propose to evaluate this technology further through a 4 armed randomized controlled trial. The goal here is to evaluate the longer term impact of the educational modules on nutrition knowledge and the impact, if any, of additional web access to the modules, on longer term knowledge. A secondary goal is to better understand nutritional habits in this population and perceptions of weight.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-02
• Study First Submitted: 2011-02-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-02-15
• Study First Posted: 2011-02-16
• Primary Completion: 2011-09
• Study Completion: 2011-09
• Status Verified: 2012-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-03-28
• Last Update Posted: 2012-03-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 160

Inclusion Criteria

• Self identify as Latino/a
• Spanish-speaking
• Over 18 years old
• Primary caregiver to a child 2 years old and under

Exclusion Criteria

• Child 2 years old and under has significant medical issue requiring special nutrition needs, e.g. g-tube or feeding tube dependent, severe food allergies.
• Person has used the nutrition modules before in prior studies

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Kiosk	Kiosk	-
Paper	paper	-
Kiosk PLUS paper	Kiosk PLUS paper	-
kiosk PLUS web	Kiosk PLUS web	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge score	Day 14	Knowledge score on the nutrition survey will be compared across groups at this time point.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
knowledge score	Day 1	Knowledge score on the nutrition survey will be compared between the paper group and the kiosk group.
Knowledge score	2 months	Knowledge score on the nutrition survey will be compared across groups at this time point - 2 months.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland, United States