ONE PATH: Optimizing Nutrition Education for Parents and Teachers for Healthy Growth

Description

This proposal uses an innovative methodological framework, the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), to design an effective and efficient responsive feeding (RF) intervention that promotes child appetite self-regulation among a high-risk sample: families with preschoolers living in rural poverty. The principles of MOST emphasize efficiency, allowing identification of the most efficacious intervention components (i.e., components that contribute to treatment effects) while minimizing participant burden and cost. ONE PATH will intervene on \~768 dyads recruited from 56 classrooms serving largely low-income, rural populations.

Conditions

Childhood Obesity, Self-regulation, Appetite Regulation

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This proposal uses an innovative methodological framework, the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST), to design an effective and efficient responsive feeding (RF) intervention that promotes child appetite self-regulation among a high-risk sample: families with preschoolers living in rural poverty. The principles of MOST emphasize efficiency, allowing identification of the most efficacious intervention components (i.e., components that contribute to treatment effects) while minimizing participant burden and cost. ONE PATH will intervene on \~768 dyads recruited from 56 classrooms serving largely low-income, rural populations.

ONE PATH: Optimizing Nutrition Education for Parents and Teachers for Healthy Growth

ONE PATH: Optimizing Nutrition Education for Parents and Teachers for Healthy Growth

Condition
Childhood Obesity
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

University Park

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States, 16802

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * children must be enrolled in a participating Head Start or Pre-K Counts center
  • * children must be between 2 and 6 years old
  • * parent or primary caregiver must be 18 years or older
  • * parent/child English speaking
  • * ECE providers must be employed in participating Head Start or Pre-K Counts center
  • * Parents will not be eligible to participate if their child is not eligible and/or not enrolled in the study
  • * ECE providers will not be eligible if they do not teach in a participating preschool classroom

Ages Eligible for Study

2 Years to 6 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Penn State University,

Jennifer S Williams, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Penn State University

Study Record Dates

2025-08