Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children (HC2) Phase II: Integrating Culturally Sensitive Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategies Into Policy
Brief Summary: One in four U.S. children under the age of 5 years old are either overweight or obese with ethnic-minority children being disproportionately affected. Low-income preschool children, many from ethnic minority backgrounds, receive childcare in federal/state subsidized centers where daily meals are provided. Nationally, the Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) organization is responsible for rating the quality of childcare centers. However, nutrition and physical activity policy standards have not been incorporated into QRIS childcare center policies. Therefore, the goal of this project is to address the 2014 AFRI program area priority of Childhood Obesity Prevention by building on the phase I "Healthy Caregivers, Healthy Children (HC2)" NRI/AFRI funded project (2010-2013), in partnership with the Miami Dade County Cooperative Extension team, to evaluate the program via randomized-controlled trial outcomes, and deliver an evidence-based effective childcare center-based program/toolkit. This project (phase II) will expand HC2 Phase I findings by transferring the evidence-based HC2 program/toolkit to QRIS childcare centers via a train-the-trainers (TTT) model. The following specific aims are proposed; (1) to evaluate the TTT model of delivery for the evidence-based HC2 toolkit's effectiveness versus an attention control on parent and teacher adoption of healthy lifestyle role modeling behaviors, and policy integration; (2) to evaluate the impact of a TTT delivery model versus an attention control on child body composition and short- and long-term behavioral health outcomes, and (3) to disseminate the HC2 early childhood obesity prevention toolkit TTT model within the QRIS early childhood network at the Miami Dade County-level.


Options:
A: Primary Outcome Measures

Inclusion:

* Enrolled in a participating Head Start program
* Age 33 months to 5 years (i.e., meets Head Start age eligibility criteria)

Exclusion:

* Those not meeting inclusion criteria

Secondary Outcome Measures

Inclusion:

* Enrolled in a participating Head Start program
* Age 33 months to 5 years

Exclusion:

* Children not enrolled at a participating Head Start program
* Children less than 29 months or older than 59 months by Sept 1
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child Care Centers must have a quality rating of 2-5 stars OR be licensed as GS110-106 (faith-based and exempt from rating), serve lunch and a snack, and have 3-4 year old classrooms and 2 preschool teacher willing to participate.
* Teachers must teach in the 3-4 year old classrooms.
* Center directors and teachers must be able to read English.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Child Care Centers cannot have participated in NAP SACC within the last 6 months.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* QC centers must meet the following criteria to be included: (1) have \> 30 children ages 2-5 enrolled; (2) Serve low income families; (3) be a part of the USDA food program and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligible; (3) Reflect the ethnic diversity of the MDC Public School System (63 percent Hispanic, 19 percent African American, 18 percent white); and (4) Center directors agree to participate and sign a letter of commitment (see Documents of Collaboration).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Centers with a high prevalence of special needs children.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* infant of intervention- or control-kindergarten

Exclusion Criteria:

* absence of parenteral consent to participate

Answer: C