Intervention to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) Consumption in Children and Families (SCOPE-IT)

Wake Forest University (WFU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity, Childhood

Treatments: Behavioral: Pilot Intervention to reduce SSB consumption in children and families

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04886817

IRB00062659

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pilot randomized trial of a technology-based intervention to reduce sugary drink consumption and promote water intake in families with young children.

Full description

This is a pilot 2-arm randomized trial among 60 families of 1-8 year old children who currently over-consume sugary drinks. The study team will randomize families to either an intervention group, that will receive a behavioral intervention consisting of an educational video, water promotion toolkit, mobile phone app, and series of educational phone calls, or to a control group that will not receive this intervention. The study team will compare 6-month change in child and parental beverage consumption between groups. Exploratory analyses will examine child weight (kg) and Body Mass Index (BMI) z-score (BMIz) outcomes, and compare intervention effects across race/ethnic groups.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1+ year old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Child 1-8 years old who receives health care attention at Wake Forest pediatric or family medicine practices
• Child consumes 2 or more SSB and/or fruit juice total per day
• Child with no chronic health condition
• Child has not seen nutritionist or visited our family-based weight management clinic in the past year
• parent/caregiver who has not watch educational video "Get in the Zero Zone"
• parent/caregiver has a smartphone and reliable internet
• parent/caregiver able to communicate well in English

Exclusion criteria

• Child doesn't meet age criteria
• Child consumes less than 2 SSB and/or fruit juice total per day
• Child with a chronic health condition
• Child has seen nutritionist or visited our family-based weight management clinic in the past year
• parent/caregiver has watched educational video "Get in the Zero Zone"
• parent/caregiver has completed interview or usability test
• parent/caregiver doesn't have a smartphone or reliable internet
• parent/caregiver not able to communicate well in English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group participants in this study will not receive any intervention as is the current standard of clinical care for excess sugary drink consumption. They will receive monthly check-in reminders from research staff to promote engagement and retention and will participate in data collection visits at baseline, 3 and 6 months.

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group participants will receive a 6-month behavioral intervention with the following components: 1. A water promotion toolkit that includes water bottles, water flavor infusers, stickers to decorate bottles, and a children's book about water consumption, as well as instructions for other intervention components (how to view video, download app, and prepare for calls) 2. A 5-minute educational video that introduces parents to healthy drink choices for the family. 3. Ready, Set Gulp! A smartphone application for families that will help all family members track their beverage intake, find out how much water and sugar they are consuming, set goals, compete for points, answer quiz questions and create new recipes for flavor infused water. 4. A series of 14 interactive voice response phone calls to parents over 6 months that educate parents on topics relevant to improving family drink choices.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pilot Intervention to reduce SSB consumption in children and families