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NCT Number: NCT03438721

Strong Futures: A Trial of Two Primary Care Based Interventions to Promote Optimal Health in Latino Infants and Toddlers

Latino children experience higher rates of obesity compared to non-Hispanic white children, especially in low-income communities. Optimal feeding strategies in early life, avoidance of screen time and longer sleep duration may lower the risk of obesity. Family financial hardship is also associated with short- and long-term health risks, including behavioral and mental health problems, and toxic stress which contributes to elevated risk of common chronic conditions over the life course. This proposal aims to pilot test two interventions to promote optimal health outcomes in Latino infants. Study participants will meet with a health educator after well child visits at 2-weeks, 2-, 4-, 6-, 9- and 12-months. Half of the parents will receive education on obesity prevention. The other half will receive financial education and case management using an established financial coaching approach. Parents will also receive text messages that reinforce educational content. The objective of this study is to determine the acceptability and feasibility of offering these interventions in the well-child setting. Study investigators also seek to determine the preliminary efficacy of these interventions on infant and parent health outcomes including dietary intake, screen time, sleep duration, health related quality of life and financial stress.

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Key information

Conditions

Childhood Obesity Body Weight Health-Related Quality of Life Nutrition Disorders Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases Obesity Overnutrition Overweight Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Pediatric Obesity Signs and Symptoms

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Children's Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital

San Francisco, California, 94110, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Study investigators will recruit parents who self-identify as Latino and their newborn infants
  • Infants must be born at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG)
  • Infants must be singletons
  • Parents must intend to receive primary care for their infant at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
  • Parents must speak Spanish (but may also speak English)

Exclusion criteria

  • Infants with birth weights less than 2500 grams
  • Infants born prior to 37 weeks and 0 days gestation
  • Infants with any medical condition that significantly affects feeding, such as infants who are unable to feed by mouth
  • Infants with any medical condition that is known to be associated with failure to thrive or specialized nutritional needs
  • Infants in foster care
  • Infants for whom the primary caregiver is not the infant's mother or father

Treatment and study plan

Infant obesity prevention

Behavioral

Parents will receive education on infant feeding, sleep, and screen time practices just after well-child visits in the first year of life. The education will be provided by a lay health educator. Parents will also receive text messages to reinforce the intervention content

Financial coaching

Behavioral

Parents randomized to the financial coaching arm will receive basic education on financial topics including budgeting, savings, and managing debt as well as coaching on these topics just after well-child visits in the first year of life. Coaching will be provided by lay health educators trained in financial coaching. Parents will also receive text messages reinforcing the information learned.

Primary outcomes

  1. Child dietary intake

    Time frame: 15-months

    Total child intake of sugar-sweetened-beverages and 100% fruit juice in ounces and total intake of fruits and vegetables in grams.

  2. Child screen time

    Time frame: Child age 15-months

    Total minutes of daily screen time

  3. Parent health-related quality of life

    Time frame: Child age 15-months

    Assessed by the PROMIS-10. The Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System Global Short Form 10 (PROMIS-10) is a ten-item scale measuring health related quality of life with subscales for physical and mental health. Raw overall total PROMIS-10 scale scores range from 10-50, with sub-scale T-scores that range from 16-67 for physical health and 21-68 for mental health. For all PROMIS-10 total raw and sub-scale scores, higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Child anthropometrics

    Time frame: Child ages 6-months, 12-months, 15-months and 24-months

    World Health Organization Weight-for-length z-score

  2. Parent financial stress

    Time frame: Child age 15-months

    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Financial Well-Being Scale. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Financial Well Being Questionnaire (Short Form, CFPB Financial Well Being Questionnaire SF) is a five item scale measuring individual financial well-being. The CFPB Financial Well Being Questionnaire has a range of 0-20 raw score, based on a 5-point Likert scale for each item, with one item (item 4) reverse coded and summed with responses for the remaining items to arrive at the raw score. The raw score is converted to a reference financial well-being score.Higher scores indicate greater financial well-being.

  3. Child sleep

    Time frame: Child age 15-months

    Child total minutes of sleep in 24-hour period

  4. Parental feeding styles

    Time frame: 15-months

    Study investigators will assess responsive, pressuring and indulgent feeding styles using the "responsive satiety," "pressuring finishing," "pressuring soothing," and "indulgence permissive" sub-scales of the Infant Feeding Styles Questionnaire. These sub-scales assess both behaviors and beliefs relevant to the construct. Scores range from 1-5 with higher scores indicating greater use of that feeding style.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Other

Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Registry information

Official study title

Strong Futures: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Primary Care Based Interventions to Promote Optimal Health in Latino Infants and Toddlers

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Feb 20, 2018
Registry last updated
Nov 16, 2021

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