Clinical trial NCT03559907: Partnering for Prevention: Building Healthy Habits in Underserved Communities
Official title: Partnering for Prevention: Building Healthy Habits in Underserved Communities
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parenting
Child Nutrition Disorders
Keywords: prevention
nutrition
early childhood
parent training
underserved
Lead sponsor: University of Pittsburgh
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: American Occupational Therapy Foundation
First posted: 2018-06-18
Enrollment: 53
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 1
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Quasi-Experimental: Three community sites will be randomized to receive on of three prevention interventions:

1. Cooking Matters for Parents
2. Promoting Routines of Exploration and Play during Mealtime (Mealtime PREP)
3. Combined (Cooking Matters + Mealtime PREP)
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This pilot study will estimate the unique and additive benefits of two parent-training programs (Cooking Matters for Parents and Promoting Routines of Exploration and Play during Mealtime) offered in undeserved communities.

Detailed description: The overall purpose of this research study is to estimate the nutritional benefits (in terms of intake and variety) of the Mealtime PREP intervention, as compared to, and in combination with nutrition education programming being offered in underserved neighborhoods of the greater Pittsburgh area. This project will examine the effects of Mealtime PREP groups as compared with established nutrition education groups, Cooking Matters for Parents. More importantly, this study will determine if offering these interventions in combination offers greater benefits than each in isolation. There are two specific aims of this pilot trial.

1. To examine the effects of a combined program (Cooking Matters + Mealtime PREP) in comparison to offering each of these programs (Cooking Matters vs. Mealtime PREP) in isolation on child nutrition over time.
2. To explore the effects of each of these programs (Cooking Matters vs. Mealtime PREP) and the combined program (Cooking Matters + Mealtime PREP) on parental stress and parent/child interaction over time.

The investigators predict that children in all three arms (Cooking Matters, Mealtime PREP, and Cooking Matters + Mealtime PREP) will demonstrate improved nutrition. The investigators also predict that participants who receive the Mealtime PREP intervention will demonstrate better stability of gains over time.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parent to a child aged 1-5 years
* Speaks English
* Willing to participate in 6 or 12 weekly group sessions at local Family Support Center

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previously completed a Cooking Matters for Parents cooking class

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline 3-Day Food Diary (dietary variety) at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler (nutritional risk) at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months
measure: Change from Baseline Parenting-Stress Inventory, Short-Form (PSI-SF) at 6 months
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
name: Angela Caldwell, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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