Nutrition Knowledge for Spanish-speaking Parents

Johns Hopkins University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Caries; Obesity

Treatments: Other: Kiosk PLUS web; Other: Kiosk PLUS paper; Other: paper; Other: Kiosk

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01296945

NA_00045360

Details and patient eligibility

About

Providing child nutrition information is a major goal of every pediatric well-child visit. Unfortunately, due to a wide array of issues, doing this effectively during clinic visits is challenging and insufficient. It is because of this that some have looked for innovative ways to enhance the delivery of this information. One such way is the use of touch screen computer programs containing nutritional information. Several studies have documented the value of patients receiving health information in such a manner.

Nonetheless, the use of this medium has not been well studied in Spanish-speaking care providers of young children. The investigators recently conducted a study that evaluated user's perception of the usability of such technology, finding that most users thought that the touchscreen was easy to use, despite their low computer confidence levels. The investigators also evaluated the impact of using nutrition modules on user's nutrition knowledge, finding that immediately after use; participant's nutrition knowledge was improved. I now propose to evaluate this technology further through a 4 armed randomized controlled trial. The goal here is to evaluate the longer term impact of the educational modules on nutrition knowledge and the impact, if any, of additional web access to the modules, on longer term knowledge. A secondary goal is to better understand nutritional habits in this population and perceptions of weight.

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self identify as Latino/a
• Spanish-speaking
• Over 18 years old
• Primary caregiver to a child 2 years old and under

Exclusion criteria

• Child 2 years old and under has significant medical issue requiring special nutrition needs, e.g. g-tube or feeding tube dependent, severe food allergies.
• Person has used the nutrition modules before in prior studies

Trial design

160 participants in 4 patient groups

Kiosk

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Kiosk

Paper

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: paper

Kiosk PLUS paper

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Kiosk PLUS paper

kiosk PLUS web

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Kiosk PLUS web