Primary Care Beverage Study

University of California, San Francisco82 enrolled

Overview

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.

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 Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Obesity Dental Caries

Interventions

Sugar Sweetened Beverage EducationBEHAVIORAL

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

Reading EducationBEHAVIORAL

Parents randomized to control will receive a 25-minute educational module on the importance of reading to children with instruction in interactive reading techniques that are appropriate to the child's age

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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)

Locations (1)

Children's Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital

San Francisco, California, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)

24-hour recall

Time frame: Baseline

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)

24-hour recall

Time frame: 2 weeks

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)

24-hour recall

Time frame: 2 months

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)

24-hour recall

Time frame: 3 months

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of 100% fruit juice in excess of guidelines

24-hour recall

Time frame: Baseline

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of 100% fruit juice in excess of guidelines

24-hour recall

Time frame: 2 weeks

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of 100% fruit juice in excess of guidelines

24-hour recall

Time frame: 2 months

Number of participants reporting child's consumption of 100% fruit juice in excess of guidelines

24-hour recall

Time frame: 3 months

Secondary Outcomes

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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