Intervention to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption in Children and Families

Wake Forest University Health Sciences120 enrolled

Overview

Pilot randomized trial of a technology-based intervention to reduce sugary drink consumption and promote water intake in families with young children.

This is a pilot 2-arm randomized trial among 60 families of 1-8 year old children who currently over-consume sugary drinks. The study team will randomize families to either an intervention group, that will receive a behavioral intervention consisting of an educational video, water promotion toolkit, mobile phone app, and series of educational phone calls, or to a control group that will not receive this intervention. The study team will compare 6-month change in child and parental beverage consumption between groups. Exploratory analyses will examine child weight (kg) and Body Mass Index (BMI) z-score (BMIz) outcomes, and compare intervention effects across race/ethnic groups.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

120

Conditions

Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

Pilot Intervention to reduce SSB consumption in children and familiesBEHAVIORAL

A 6-month intervention based on the use of 4 components: an educational video, provision of a water-promotion "toolkit," a mobile phone application (app), and a series of 14 computerized interactive voice response (IVR) phone calls to parents to compare families' SSB's consumption behaviors

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Child 1-8 years old who receives health care attention at Wake Forest pediatric or family medicine practices * Child consumes 2 or more SSB and/or fruit juice total per day * Child with no chronic health condition * Child has not seen nutritionist or visited our family-based weight management clinic in the past year * parent/caregiver who has not watch educational video "Get in the Zero Zone" * parent/caregiver has a smartphone and reliable internet * parent/caregiver able to communicate well in English Exclusion Criteria: * Child doesn't meet age criteria * Child consumes less than 2 SSB and/or fruit juice total per day * Child with a chronic health condition * Child has seen nutritionist or visited our family-based weight management clinic in the past year * parent/caregiver has watched educational video "Get in the Zero Zone" * parent/caregiver has completed interview or usability test * parent/caregiver doesn't have a smartphone or reliable internet * parent/caregiver not able to communicate well in English

Locations (1)

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Change in child sugary drink serving consumption

change in a child's combined consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB)+Fruit Juice (FJ), measured as total servings per day, at 3 months after starting intervention, measured with Beverage Intake Questionnaire (BevQ15) instrument

Time frame: from baseline to month 3

Change in child sugary drink serving consumption

change in a child's combined consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB)+Fruit Juice (FJ), measured as total servings per day, at 6 months after starting intervention, measured with Beverage Intake Questionnaire (BevQ15) instrument

Time frame: from baseline to month 6

Secondary Outcomes

BevQ 15 - Children Change in Servings of Beverages

changes in total servings children including water and unsweetened milk

Time frame: from baseline to month 3, from baseline to month 6

BevQ 15 - Children Change in total Volume of Beverages

changes in total volume of beverages consumed by children including water and unsweetened milk

Time frame: from baseline to month 3, from baseline to month 6

BevQ 15 - Children Change in total calories of beverages consumption

Changes in calories of beverages consumed by children including water and unsweetened milk

Time frame: from baseline to month 3, from baseline to month 6

BevQ 15 -Parental Change in Sugary beverage consumption

changes in parental beverage consumption sugary drink serving

Time frame: from baseline to month 3, from baseline to month 6

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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