Home Plate: A Trial to Improve Home Food Preparation Practices Among Parents of Toddlers

NCT02458833 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 15-011720
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 115
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to test the effectiveness of a community-based, peer-mentored intervention to improve home food preparation practices in families with young children.

Conditions

Obesity

Keywords

Obesity; Nutrition; Home Food Preparation; Home Food Environment; Peer Mentoring; Early Head Start; Cooking; Diet

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Dietary Energy Density (Child Participants)

  Child participants' 24-hour dietary recalls will be collected by trained study staff from adult caregivers. 24-hour dietary recalls will be collected on a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 separate days. The results will then be used to calculate the energy density of the child's diet.

  19-30 weeks from baseline

Secondary Outcomes (7)

• Home Food Preparation Practices

  19-30 weeks from baseline

• Home Food Environment

  19-30 weeks from baseline

• Household Routines

  19-30 weeks from baseline

• Emotional and Family Health

  19-30 weeks from baseline

• Body mass index

  19-30 weeks from baseline

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Home Plate intervention

Behavioral: Home Plate

Delayed Entry Control

EXPERIMENTAL

This Arm will receive the Home Plate intervention 3 months after the Intervention Arm completes the intervention.

Behavioral: Home Plate

Interventions

Home Plate BEHAVIORAL

Home Plate is a community-based, peer mentored intervention aimed at improving home food preparation practices in families with young children. Through 6 classes, this intervention explores topics related to regularly preparing healthy foods at home.

Delayed Entry Control; Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• English-speaking
• Able to give informed consent.
• Legal guardian and caregiver of at least one child, age 1-3 years
• year old children of mentee primary caregivers enrolled in the study
• If a mentee caregiver has more than one child, then all their eligible children (ages 1-3 years) will be enrolled in the study.
• In addition,
• The study team will decide which participants will be invited to be peer mentors, based on attributes including interest, leadership ability, and home food preparation skills.

You may not qualify if:

• Caregivers who are pregnant at the time of enrollment.
• Caregivers or children with a medical condition that significantly affects their diet or eating habits. (The study team will ask during the time of recruitment if subjects or their children have a medical condition that significantly affects diet or eating habits.)
• Subjects who, in the opinion of the Investigator, may be unable to participate in the study schedules or procedures.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: lead
• University of Pennsylvania: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Obesity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overweight; Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Officials

• Senbagam Virudachalam, MD, MSHP

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 28, 2015
• First Posted: June 1, 2015
• Study Start: June 1, 2015
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2017
• Study Completion: July 13, 2017
• Last Updated: April 24, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-04

Locations

US (1)