Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children
Deconstructing Food Parenting Approaches to Obesity Prevention for the Highly Food Motivated Child
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interventional
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Brief Summary
High food motivation among children is trait-like and increases risks of unhealthy dietary intake and obesity. Scientific knowledge of how parenting can best support healthy eating habits and growth among children who are predisposed to overeating is surprisingly limited. This investigation will identify supportive food parenting approaches for obesity prevention that address the needs of highly food motivated children.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
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participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Sep 2023
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
2 active sites
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Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
September 7, 2023
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
October 26, 2023
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
November 1, 2023
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
October 31, 2027
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
October 31, 2027
November 5, 2025
November 1, 2025
4.2 years
October 26, 2023
November 3, 2025
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (2)
Excessive dietary intakes
Indicators: SFAS intakes and meal/snack sizes estimated from 24-hour dietary recalls
Baseline, 18 months
BMI change
% of the 50th percentile per age- and sex-specific CDC reference values for BMI on a log scale
Baseline, 18 months
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Observed food motivated behaviors
Baseline, 18 months
Study Arms (1)
Caregiver-child dyads
OTHERA cohort of 205 caregivers and 205 children aged 4-5 years at baseline will be recruited and followed longitudinally for 18 months.
Interventions
The only interventions are at the measurement level and consist of two behavioral protocols designed to assess children's eating behavior, where food stimuli are provided and children's behavioral responses are recorded.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Child ages 4 or 5 years at baseline;
- Parent/ primary caregiver with legal representation (having 50% or more custody of child);
- Parent/primary caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare (being with child when they are eating at least two times daily);
- Caregiver with a cell phone that can be used to send and receive text messages. If there is more than one age-eligible child in the family, we will ask the caregiver to pick the index child.
You may not qualify if:
- Parent/primary caregiver \<18 years of age;
- Child history of major food allergies (e.g., peanuts);
- Child medication use (e.g., insulin), developmental disability (e.g., autism) or medical condition(s) (e.g., diabetes) known to affect food intake and growth;
- Foster child.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Temple Universitylead
- Baylor College of Medicinecollaborator
- University of Minnesotacollaborator
Study Sites (2)
Temple University - Center for Obesity Research and Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19140, United States
USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center
Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
Related Publications (1)
Buttner C, Skupin A, Reimann T, Rieber EP, Unteregger G, Geyer P, Frank KH. Local production of interleukin-4 during radiation-induced pneumonitis and pulmonary fibrosis in rats: macrophages as a prominent source of interleukin-4. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 1997 Sep;17(3):315-25. doi: 10.1165/ajrcmb.17.3.2279.
PMID: 9308918BACKGROUND
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jennifer O Fisher, PhD
Temple University
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Sheryl O Hughes, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- OTHER
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
October 26, 2023
First Posted
November 1, 2023
Study Start
September 7, 2023
Primary Completion (Estimated)
October 31, 2027
Study Completion (Estimated)
October 31, 2027
Last Updated
November 5, 2025
Record last verified: 2025-11
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Time Frame
- Within two years of completion of the study
- Access Criteria
- Researchers will work with the University Libraries Research Data Management Services staff to facilitate the deposit of data into TUScholarShare, and to ensure appropriate metadata and complete documentation of the data to maximize the ability to understand and reuse the data. The data will be published in TUScholarShare for long-term preservation, using services such as file format migration where possible, persistent identifiers (DOIs), persistent Web addresses (handles), and checksums. TUScholarShare data resides in two locations, a local Isilon storage system and an off-site cloud-based service, Open Repository. Open Repository's AWS cloud storage service provides extended infrastructure, which includes a production server, test server, fallback servers, data backups, and full system backups
Research data generated by the project will be supported by TUScholarShare (https://scholarshare.temple.edu/), the institutional repository for Temple University. This is a repository service that is managed by the Temple University Libraries and uses Open Repository, an enhanced DSpace platform that is hosted by Atmire. TUScholarShare has been developed with the intent of helping researchers comply with grant-funding agency requirements. It enables dissemination and long-term preservation and curation (management, use, and re-use) of data.