The overall goal of this research is use digital health to augment the clinical encounter with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinicians and prevent rapid infant weight gain among children living in low-income households. Intervening on weight gain during infancy offers an opportunity to influence lifelong obesity risk. Using personalized motivational messages and targeted skills-training resources, the intervention will support parents and caregivers in adopting responsive feeding strategies. Knowledge gained from this project will be used to develop a future, larger grant submission focused on developing healthy feeding and eating habits among mother-infant dyads.
Assess the feasibility and acceptability of a digital intervention aimed at increasing responsive infant feeding behaviors, beginning 1 month postpartum and continuing through 3-months postpartum, among a prospective cohort of women receiving WIC benefits. Use qualitative methods to explore barriers and facilitators to participation in a digital infant feeding intervention among women receiving WIC benefits during early postpartum
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
69
Participants will receive: 1) behavior change goals, 2) self-monitoring with tailored feedback, and 3) skills training. We will use text messaging to administer the intervention pieces. At baseline, each participant will complete a series of surveys to gain background information. Throughout the study participants will report their goal adherence in response to a text messaging prompt and immediately receive tailored feedback. Text messages will be deployed daily with 2 check in messages per week; participants will receive tailored feedback based on their response.
Participants will receive: 1) behavior change goals, 2) self-monitoring with tailored feedback, and 3) skills training. We will use text messaging to administer the intervention pieces. At baseline, each participant will complete a series of surveys to gain background information. Throughout the study participants will report their goal adherence in response to a text messaging prompt and immediately receive tailored feedback. Text messages will be deployed daily with 2 check in messages per week; participants will receive tailored feedback based on their response.
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
Engagement - average text message completion rate
Engagement will be assessed by reporting the average text message completion rate over the 12-week intervention period.
Time frame: Week 12
Satisfaction Scores - Acceptability
Satisfaction with the intervention content - Participants will be asked to complete satisfaction surveys upon study completion to assess the acceptability of the message perceptions about the use of digital technologies. There isn't a scale; we will report percentage responding positively to each question.
Time frame: Week 12
Satisfaction Scores - Frequency
Satisfaction with the intervention message frequency - Participants will be asked to complete satisfaction surveys upon study completion to assess the frequency of the use of digital technologies. There isn't a scale; we will report percentage responding positively to each question.
Time frame: Week 12
Satisfaction Scores - Timing
Satisfaction with the intervention message timing - Participants will be asked to complete satisfaction surveys upon study completion to assess the timing, of the use of digital technologies. There isn't a scale; we will report percentage responding positively to each question.
Time frame: Week 12
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