Primary Care Beverage Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Obesity; Dental Caries
• Interventions: Behavioral: Reading Education; Behavioral: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Education

• Registration Number: NCT02257203
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

This is a pilot randomized clinical trial of a brief educational intervention offered in primary care for Latino parents that promotes healthy beverage consumption by infants and toddlers. The control group will receive an educational intervention that promotes parents reading to children.

Detailed Description

To use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to test the efficacy of a primary care-based intervention to promote Bright Futures recommendations for consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among Latino children ages 6 months to 5 years.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2014-09-24
• Study Start: 2014-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-10-03
• Study First Posted: 2014-10-06
• Primary Completion: 2015-12
• Study Completion: 2015-12
• Status Verified: 2016-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-09-16
• Last Update Posted: 2016-09-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 82

Inclusion Criteria

• Parents self-identify as Latino
• Parents speak English or Spanish
• Parents have a child between the ages of 6 months and 5 years

Exclusion Criteria

• Parents who have participated in group educational sessions on nutrition offered through our obesity clinic or who have been newly referred to obesity clinic
• Parents whose child has a chronic condition which affects feeding (such as requiring tube feeds or being on a specialized diet for poor weight gain)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Reading Education	Reading Education	Parents will receive an educational module on the importance of reading to children with instruction in interactive reading techniques that are appropriate to the child's age
Sugar Sweetened Beverage Education	Sugar Sweetened Beverage Education	Parents will receive an educational module on beverage just after the conclusion of their child's well visit in a private room adjacent to the clinic

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of participants reporting child's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)	3 months	24-hour recall
Number of participants reporting child's consumption of 100% fruit juice in excess of guidelines	3 months	24-hour recall

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Servings of SSB and 100% fruit juice in the past 7 days	3 months	From the 7-day structured beverage frequency questionnaire we will determine the total servings of SSBs and 100% fruit juice consumed over a 7-day period at each time point

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Children's Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital; 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States