Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Childhood Obesity (MOMS)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Maternal focused intervention; Behavioral: Ounce of Prevention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01565525

HD50944

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this pilot project is to test anticipatory guidance, which is information given to families during a well child visit to prevent obesity during childhood. The objectives were to compare two styles of anticipatory guidance during the first year of life, maternal focused and infant focused, versus usual care and determine which style, if any, showed the most ideal infant feeding behaviors at age 1 year and to see if there were any differences in infant weight for height at one year of age. The investigators hypothesized that mothers who received the maternal focused anticipatory guidance (which gave information on eating family meals, not having tv on during meals, and maternal nutrition) would actually have the best infant feeding behaviors and weight for height of infants at one year.

Enrollment: 306 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 weeks to 2 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Maternal/infant pairs Infant under 2 months of age Mother English speaking

Exclusion criteria

History of Neonatal ICU stay in infant Gestation less than 37 weeks in infant chronic disease in infant known genetic disorder in infant foster care placement in infant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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306 participants in 3 patient groups

Bright Futures

No Intervention group

Description:

This represents 'usual care' in the pediatric office. The anticipatory guidance regarding nutrition is based on the Bright Futures Pocket Guide.

Maternal focused intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Childhood obesity prevention was approached in this arm via anticipatory guidance aimed at maternal eating habits.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Maternal focused intervention

Ounce of Prevention

Active Comparator group

Description:

This is a program of anticipatory guidance given to mothers of infants ages 2 weeks to one year which focuses on serving size per age and tips for introducing new foods for the infant.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Ounce of Prevention