Delta Healthy Sprouts: Intervention to Promote Maternal Weight Control and Reduce Childhood Obesity in the MS Delta

USDA, Delta Human Nutrition Research Program

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Parents as Teachers Enhanced; Behavioral: Parents as Teachers

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01746394

DHN_12_01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project is a randomized, controlled trial evaluating the enhancement of an existing Mother, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program in 150 African American women in their early second trimester of pregnancy. The control arm, Parents as Teachers, is an evidence-based approach to increase parental knowledge of child development and improve parenting practices. The experimental arm, Parents as Teachers Enhanced, builds on the Parents as Teachers curriculum by including nutrition and physical activity components specifically designed for the gestational and postnatal periods. Both arms of the intervention will be implemented by community-based, trained Parent Educators. The comparative effectiveness of the two intervention arms on weight status, dietary intake, and health behaviors of mothers and their infants will be assessed. The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project will determine if a novel, scalable, lifestyle intervention can improve the health of African American women and their children at high-risk for obesity and chronic disease.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least 18 years of age
• Less than 18 weeks pregnant with first, second, or third child
• Resident of Mississippi counties of Washington and Bolivar

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant with more than one fetus

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Parents as Teachers Enhanced

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the Parents as Teachers Enhanced (PaTE) intervention arm will receive the enhanced diet and activity maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parents as Teachers

Behavioral: Parents as Teachers Enhanced

Parents as Teachers

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in the Parents as Teachers (PaT) control arm will receive the standard maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parents as Teachers