Helping Young Children Improve Eating

Kelly Tanner

Status

Completed

Conditions

Feeding and Eating Disorders of Childhood

Treatments

Behavioral: Educational Handout

Behavioral: Parent Education Videos

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03324568

IRB17-00420

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the impact of different types of educational materials on parent and child feeding behaviors. Specifically, the investigators will test the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of an investigator-developed series of parent training videos designed to teach behavioral strategies to promote feeding in young children with feeding difficulties.

Enrollment

156 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Parents of patients ages 18 months through 6 years currently on the waitlist (for an estimated time of at least 4-6 weeks) for outpatient feeding therapy, or with feeding concerns identified in a primary care visit; English-speaking parents; parent has the technology to access the videos and REDCap survey.

Exclusion criteria

Parents of patients not currently eating by mouth; parents of patients currently being treated by a psychologist, occupational therapist, or speech therapist to address feeding, eating, or swallowing skills; parents of patients who have aspirated on their most recent videofluoroscopic swallow study or who currently have a tracheostomy.