Project Sueño: Sleep & Understanding Early Nutrition in Obesity

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Infant Overweight; Infant Overnutrition; Infant Obesity; Infant Development; Metabolic Syndrome; Diabetes Mellitus Risk
• Interventions: Behavioral: Centering Parenting; Behavioral: Bright by Text

• Registration Number: NCT06117631
• Lead Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to understand how mothers think and feel about feeding their babies and putting them to sleep, understand more about programs that can support mothers taking care of babies, and how professionals can be most helpful in helping mothers make decisions about their baby's feeding and sleeping. The overarching goal is to prevent early life obesity and progression to metabolic syndrome in high-risk populations, starting with healthy toddler weights by age 2 years.

Detailed Description

This study seeks to intervene just in time for families at highest risk of early life obesity and obesity-related comorbidities (such as Type 2 diabetes), to prevent intergenerational obesity and metabolic syndrome for Hispanic families. For those children exposed to gestational diabetes (GDM) or maternal overweight/obesity in utero, there is a critical need for effective early life strategies for secondary prevention of obesity, to interrupt intergenerational transmission. This study will offer community-embedded coaching to families learn how to responsively feed their babies using 2 models: group visits and text-based. The investigators will also assess responsive sleep practices; i.e. paying attention to an infant's sleep cues as well as hunger cues, breaking the feeding to sleep association, and not overfeeding at night. Infant and toddler sleep, both duration and quality, has not been well studied in this population for early life obesity prevention. This study is specifically exploring pathways from prenatal gestational diabetes and maternal overweight/obesity to dysregulated infant feeding and sleep. Few interventions around infant sleep exist for the Hispanic population, or resources in Spanish-language around sleep coaching; let alone analyses on parents' self-efficacy and behavior change. In this study, the investigators aim to better understand the complex socioenvironmental drivers of infant sleep and feeding behaviors, and the prenatal risks related to infant rapid weight gain, in order to target modifiable factors in this population.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-05-09
• Study Start: 2023-07-01
• Status Verified: 2023-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-11-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-11-01
• Study First Posted: 2023-11-07
• Last Update Posted: 2023-11-07
• Primary Completion: 2025-12-31
• Study Completion: 2025-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 240

Inclusion Criteria

• Mother to infant born full term > 37 weeks, and are under 1 month of age
• Infant is singleton
• Infant has no identified health problems
• Infant is patient of CommUnityCare
• Mother is 18 years of age
• Mother is Latino/Hispanic ethnicity
• Mother is willing to commit to study follow-up visits

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Exclusion Criteria

• Mother smokes
• Mother works primarily at night
• Infant has metabolic or chromosomal disorders, chronic neurological or respiratory conditions, or developmental disability

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Group A: Centering Parenting	Centering Parenting	At each well-child check from 2- to 24-months, a trained bilingual facilitator from the CommUnityCare Centering Parenting program will present curriculum in person during 2-hour visits in a room with 3-8 mother-baby pairs per group. During each session, each mother-baby pair will be pulled out to a private medical room for a brief individual well child appointment with the pediatrician. During this appointment, infant measurements, physical exam, and discussion of unique concerns will take place before the pair returns to the session. There are 8 scheduled well child checks by the age of two, where regular parenting topics will be covered (i.e. discipline, safety, co-parenting, sibling relationships, childcare, development). Each Centering session is expected to last approximately 2 hours, for a total commitment of approximately 16 hours across 8 group sessions over the course of 22 months for each participant. Total time of enrollment should be approximately 22-24 months.
Group B: Bright by Text	Bright by Text	This group will receive standard of care individual well child checks with their regular CommUnityCare pediatrician, with standard anticipatory guidance on feeding and sleep. Additionally, this group will be enrolled in a text-based parenting coaching program. The Bright by Text program will provide parenting tips two to three times weekly; tailored through community partner United Way of Central Texas offering local parent support and resources. The Bright by Text program is a message subscription program rather than an application. Participants may decide on their own how much to engage with the text-based program, so total time commitment cannot be estimated. Total time of enrollment should be approximately 22-24 months.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assess impact of group-based parent support coaching in first 2 years of child's life on responsive feeding and healthy sleep practices.	2- to 24-months of infant age	Assessment of parental responsive feeding practices, and infant sleep and temperament. Assessment instruments include: Complementary Feeding History questionnaire, Nutrition Data System for Research, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education questionnaire, Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire, Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire, Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire, Infant Toddler Temperament Tool. Sleep will additionally be assessed using 1-week sleep diaries and accelerometry at 2-, 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-months of age.
Assess impact of text-based parent support coaching in first 2 years of child's life on responsive feeding and healthy sleep practices.	2- to 24-months of infant age	Assessment of parental responsive feeding practices, and infant sleep and temperament. Assessment instruments include: Complementary Feeding History questionnaire, Nutrition Data System for Research, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education questionnaire, Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire, Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire, Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire, Infant Toddler Temperament Tool. Sleep will additionally be assessed using 1-week sleep diaries and accelerometry at 2-, 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-months of age.
Assess impact of group-based parent support coaching on infant feeding practices in first 2 years of child's life.	2- to 24-months of infant age	Assessment instruments include: Complementary Feeding History questionnaire, Nutrition Data System for Research, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education questionnaire, Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire.
Assess impact of text-based parent support coaching on infant feeding practices in first 2 years of child's life.	2- to 24-months of infant age	Assessment instruments include: Complementary Feeding History questionnaire, Nutrition Data System for Research, Expanded Food and Nutrition Education questionnaire, Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire.
Determine how parent support coaching and other predictors relate to infant and toddler growth in Latino children in first 2 years of life.	2- to 24-months of infant age	Assessment of variability of growth patterns by modeling of trajectories of weight gain in first 2 years of life.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CommUnity Care: North Central Health Center; 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States