Primary Care Beverage Study

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Caries; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Reading Education; Behavioral: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT02257203

PC-Based Beverage

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pilot randomized clinical trial of a brief educational intervention offered in primary care for Latino parents that promotes healthy beverage consumption by infants and toddlers. The control group will receive an educational intervention that promotes parents reading to children.

Full description

To use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to test the efficacy of a primary care-based intervention to promote Bright Futures recommendations for consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among Latino children ages 6 months to 5 years.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents self-identify as Latino
• Parents speak English or Spanish
• Parents have a child between the ages of 6 months and 5 years

Exclusion criteria

• Parents who have participated in group educational sessions on nutrition offered through our obesity clinic or who have been newly referred to obesity clinic
• Parents whose child has a chronic condition which affects feeding (such as requiring tube feeds or being on a specialized diet for poor weight gain)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Sugar Sweetened Beverage Education

Experimental group

Description:

Parents will receive an educational module on beverage just after the conclusion of their child's well visit in a private room adjacent to the clinic

Treatment:

Behavioral: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Education

Reading Education

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parents will receive an educational module on the importance of reading to children with instruction in interactive reading techniques that are appropriate to the child's age

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reading Education