Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children (HC3)

University of Miami

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child, Only; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Jump Start; Behavioral: Healthy Caregivers- Healthy children

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05106426

20210902

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to further develop and examine the Health Caregivers Healthy Children (HC2) program, which encourages obesity prevention through promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

Enrollment: 348 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Center Inclusion Criteria:

1. have >30 children ages 2-to-5 with a with or at-risk for a disability or special healthcare need
2. Serve low income families
3. Reflect the ethnic diversity of the Miami Dade county Public School System (60% Hispanic, 20% non-Hispanic Black, 20% Non Hispanic White).

Child inclusion criteria:

1. Children with an Individual Education Plan or at-risk based on social and economic variables
2. child ages 2-5
3. child enrolled in a childcare center

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Children with feeding tubes or those that bring their own meals due to dietary restrictions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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348 participants in 4 patient groups

HC2 intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive the Healthy Caregivers-Healthy Children (HC2) intervention for 24 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Caregivers- Healthy children

Jump Start Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive the Jump Start intervention for 24 months

Treatment:

Behavioral: Jump Start

Parents/Caregivers of Participants receiving HC2 intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents/caregivers of participants receiving the HC2 program will not be receiving any intervention.

No Intervention: Parents/Caregivers of participants receiving Jump Start Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Parents/caregivers of participants receiving the Jump Start program will not be receiving any intervention.