Childhood Activities Nutrition and Development Oversight

Description

The overall goal of this study is to understand how common conditions in childhood develop and if by providing specific health education and resources to parents/caregivers we can promote healthy development. This study will provide information and instruction on several aspects of infant care including, sleep, nutrition, building a healthy relationship with your baby, and healthy screen time use.

Conditions

Environmental Exposure

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Study overview

The overall goal of this study is to understand how common conditions in childhood develop and if by providing specific health education and resources to parents/caregivers we can promote healthy development. This study will provide information and instruction on several aspects of infant care including, sleep, nutrition, building a healthy relationship with your baby, and healthy screen time use.

Childhood Activities Nutrition and Development Oversight

Childhood Activities Nutrition and Development Oversight

Condition
Environmental Exposure
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611

Chicago

Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Parent/guardian(s) must understand and provide informed consent
  • * Infant \<26 weeks of age at enrollment
  • * Willing to be randomized to either intervention or control
  • * In good general health as evidenced by medical history
  • * Stated willingness to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study
  • * Child assigned male or female sex at birth
  • * Infant completed less than 28 weeks gestation
  • * Co-morbid medical diagnoses that would prevent caregivers from initiating solid foods per protocol, such as dysphagia, chronic aspiration, malformations, etc.
  • * Co-morbid medical diagnoses that would require specialized diet/nutritional needs, such as congenital heart disease, genetic/metabolic disorders, malignancy, etc.
  • * Caregivers who express unwillingness to introduce peanut, milk, egg, or cashew
  • * Caregivers who cannot provide informed consent in English or Spanish
  • * Parents planning to move away from study sites before child is 12 months of age
  • * Investigator or designee considers that the participant or parent/guardian would be unsuitable for inclusion in the study
  • * Infant with a sibling enrolled in the study

Ages Eligible for Study

to 26 Weeks

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Northwestern University,

Ruchi S Gupta, MD MPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Study Record Dates

2027-12-31