A Mobile Health Intervention to Reduce Sweet Beverage Consumption in Latino Children
Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a major contributor to childhood obesity, caries, fatty liver disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Latino children are more likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and to suffer from all of the aforementioned conditions. Reading out loud to children from birth through age 5 is critical for the promotion of language and early literacy skills. Children whose parents read aloud to them are more likely to start school with the skills required for early reading success. This is important as reading proficiency in third grade is the best predictor of high school graduation and career success. Latino children are less likely to be read to than non-Hispanic white children and at higher risk of entering kindergarten without critical early literacy skills. Thus, there is a pressing need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption among Latino children as well as interventions that promote reading out loud. Primary care is an optimal setting for such interventions. However, multiple demands on providers' time make it difficult to rely on in-person interventions. For this reason, it is critical to test intervention designs that do not rely directly on health care providers and that can be delivered remotely if needed. The investigators have developed two m-health interventions for Latino parents, one that promotes optimal beverage consumption patterns and one that promotes reading out loud to children. The purpose of this study is to test the impact of these interventions on child beverage intake patterns and the frequency with which parents read to children.
Conditions:
🦠 Child Obesity 🦠 Child Development
🗓️ Study Start (Actual) 5 March 2021
🗓️ Primary Completion (Estimated) 1 July 2025
✅ Study Completion (Estimated) 1 July 2025
👥 Enrollment (Estimated) 200
🔬 Study Type INTERVENTIONAL
📊 Phase NA
Locations:
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

📋 Eligibility Criteria

Description

    Inclusion Criteria:

    • * Parent identifies child as Latino/a/x
    • * Child age 1 to 5 (12 to 59 months)
    • * Parent has a cell phone that can receive text messages
    • * Parent speak English or Spanish

    Exclusion Criteria:

    • • Child does not feed by mouth
Ages Eligible for Study: 12 Months to 59 Months (CHILD)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

🗓️ Study Record Dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Registration Dates

  • First Submitted 10 February 2021
  • First Submitted that Met QC Criteria 10 February 2021
  • First Posted 15 February 2021

Study Record Updates

  • Last Update Submitted that Met QC Criteria 29 April 2024
  • Last Update Posted 1 May 2024
  • Last Verified April 2024