A Mobile Health Intervention to Reduce Sweet Beverage Consumption in Latino Children

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Recruiting

• Conditions: Child Development; Child Obesity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Beverage Intervention; Behavioral: Reading Intervention

• Registration Number: NCT04754269
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco

Brief Summary

Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a major contributor to childhood obesity, caries, fatty liver disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Latino children are more likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and to suffer from all of the aforementioned conditions. Reading out loud to children from birth through age 5 is critical for the promotion of language and early literacy skills. Children whose parents read aloud to them are more likely to start school with the skills required for early reading success. This is important as reading proficiency in third grade is the best predictor of high school graduation and career success. Latino children are less likely to be read to than non-Hispanic white children and at higher risk of entering kindergarten without critical early literacy skills. Thus, there is a pressing need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption among Latino children as well as interventions that promote reading out loud. Primary care is an optimal setting for such interventions. However, multiple demands on providers' time make it difficult to rely on in-person interventions. For this reason, it is critical to test intervention designs that do not rely directly on health care providers and that can be delivered remotely if needed. The investigators have developed two m-health interventions for Latino parents, one that promotes optimal beverage consumption patterns and one that promotes reading out loud to children. The purpose of this study is to test the impact of these interventions on child beverage intake patterns and the frequency with which parents read to children.

Detailed Description

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Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-02-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-10
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-15
• Study Start: 2021-03-05
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-29
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2025-07-01
• Study Completion: 2025-07-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

• Parent identifies child as Latino/a/x
• Child age 1 to 5 (12 to 59 months)
• Parent has a cell phone that can receive text messages
• Parent speak English or Spanish

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Exclusion Criteria

• Child does not feed by mouth

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Beverage Intervention	Beverage Intervention	Parents will watch a video that promotes optimal beverage practices for young children. Parents will receive that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.
Reading Intervention	Reading Intervention	Parents will watch a video that promotes reading to children. Parents will receive text messages that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in 7-day child consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice	Change from baseline to 3-month follow-up	Parents will report child consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice over previous 7 days in fluid ounces via a verbal questionnaire. The outcome measure will be the summed 7-day total of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice in fluid ounces

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in 7 day total parent intake of sugar-sweetened beverages	Change from baseline to 3-month follow-up	Parents will report their own consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in the previous 7 days in 8 ounce servings via a verbal questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

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