Clinical trial NCT06981429: A Positive Food Parenting Intervention to Promote Healthy Growth in Children at Risk for Obesity
Official title: A Positive Food Parenting Intervention to Promote Healthy Growth in Children at Risk for Obesity
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pediatric Obesity
Nutrition Disorder
Keywords: children
parenting
parent feeding practices
food parenting
obesity risk
positive food parenting
autonomy promotion
structure - based food parenting
Lead sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
First posted: 2025-05-20
Enrollment: 36
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will either be assigned to the control group or the experimental group. The control group will participate in a 10 - session 'promoting healthy development in middle childhood' program. The experimental group will be receiving the intervention.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study is the pilot of a 12 - week positive food parenting intervention focused on structure-based and autonomy promoting practices. The intervention aims to give parents the tools to promote healthy child growth and improve diet quality. The investigators are piloting to assess feasibility and efficacy of the intervention through examining participant retention, impact on parent feeding practices, and impact on parent and child diet quality.


Eligibility criteria: PARENT CRITERIA:

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age \> 18 years old.
* Have a child between the ages of 5 - 11 who is at risk for obesity (child BMI percentile \> 85th) or parent it concerned about their child developing overweight or obesity
* Low use of positive food parenting (Defined as: low reports of individual nutrition education/ knowledge OR reports low levels of structure, involvement, or encouragement in their food parenting practices)
* Must be responsible for feeding their eligible child at least 50% of the time.
* Fluent in English.
* Have access to internet and a Zoom compatible device.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age is \< 18 years old. Their child is determined ineligible (based on BMI percentile and age).
* Does not report low use of positive food parenting (as defined above).
* Is responsible for feeding their eligible child \< 50% of the time.
* Not fluent in English.
* Does not have access to internet and a Zoom compatible device.
* On medication that could influence their eating or feeding behaviors.

CHILD CRITERIA:

Inclusion Criteria:

* Their parent/ guardian is eligible and participating in the study.
* Ages 5 - 11
* Is not current diagnosed with a clinical eating disorder (ED).
* Is not on any medications, or have any conditions, that could influence the child's taste, appetite, or olfactory sensory responsiveness.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Their parent/ guardian is not eligible nor participating in the study.
* Below the age of 5 and above the age of 11.
* BMI percentile \< 85th and/or \> 97th.
* Current diagnosis of a clinical eating disorder (ED)
* Medications or conditions that could influence the child's taste, appetite, or olfactory sensory responsiveness.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Parent use of structure - based and autonomy - promoting parent feeding practices.
timeFrame: Session 1 (week 1) to Session 12 (week 12)
measure: Parent and Child Diet Quality
timeFrame: Session 1 (week 1) and Session 12 (week 12)
measure: Parent BMI and Child zBMI
timeFrame: Session 1 (week 1) and Session 12 (week 12)
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Buffalo
country: United States
facility: State University of New York at Buffalo, South Campus
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo
name: Katherine N Balantekin, PhD, RD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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