A Mobile Health Intervention to Reduce Sweet Beverage Consumption in Latino Children

NCT04754269 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 20-30664
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 171
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a major contributor to childhood obesity, caries, fatty liver disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Latino children are more likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and to suffer from all of the aforementioned conditions. Reading out loud to children from birth through age 5 is critical for the promotion of language and early literacy skills. Children whose parents read aloud to them are more likely to start school with the skills required for early reading success. This is important as reading proficiency in third grade is the best predictor of high school graduation and career success. Latino children are less likely to be read to than non-Hispanic white children and at higher risk of entering kindergarten without critical early literacy skills. Thus, there is a pressing need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption among Latino children as well as interventions that promote reading out loud. Primary care is an optimal setting for such interventions. However, multiple demands on providers' time make it difficult to rely on in-person interventions. For this reason, it is critical to test intervention designs that do not rely directly on health care providers and that can be delivered remotely if needed. The investigators have developed two m-health interventions for Latino parents, one that promotes optimal beverage consumption patterns and one that promotes reading out loud to children. The purpose of this study is to test the impact of these interventions on child beverage intake patterns and the frequency with which parents read to children.

Conditions

Child Obesity; Child Development

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in 7-day child consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice

  Parents will report child consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice over previous 7 days in fluid ounces via a verbal questionnaire. The outcome measure will be the summed 7-day total of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice in fluid ounces

  Change from baseline to 3-month follow-up

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in 7 day total parent intake of sugar-sweetened beverages

  Change from baseline to 3-month follow-up

Study Arms (2)

Beverage Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Parents will watch a video that promotes optimal beverage practices for young children. Parents will receive that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Behavioral: Beverage Intervention

Reading Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Parents will watch a video that promotes reading to children. Parents will receive text messages that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Behavioral: Reading Intervention

Interventions

Beverage Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Parents will watch a video that promotes optimal beverage practices for young children including discouraging consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice and encouraging consumption of water and unsweetened milk. Parents will receive 24 text messages over a 12 week period that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Beverage Intervention

Reading Intervention BEHAVIORAL

Parents will watch a video that promotes reading to children and includes specific ideas and techniques for how to make reading interactive and engaging. Parents will receive 24 text messages over a 12 week period that reinforce and expand on the messages in the video.

Reading Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Months - 59 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Parent identifies child as Latino/a/x
• Child age 1 to 5 (12 to 59 months)
• Parent has a cell phone that can receive text messages
• Parent speak English or Spanish

You may not qualify if:

• Child does not feed by mouth

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, San Francisco: lead

Study Sites (1)

San Francisco General Hospital Children's Health Center

San Francisco, California, 94110, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pediatric Obesity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Study Officials

• Amy L Beck, MD, MPH

  University of California, San Francisco

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 10, 2021
• First Posted: February 15, 2021
• Study Start: March 5, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2023
• Study Completion: December 1, 2023
• Last Updated: April 16, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)