Using Family-Based Approaches to Improve Healthy Eating for Southeast Asian Children

Description

This small scale healthy eating study provides Southeast Asian families with children ages 6 to 11 with a family-based nutrition education, one-on-one interviews to help with motivation to eat health, text messaging, and coupons to purchase health foods and beverages. Since this is a small scale study that is a pilot intervention, the main goal of this intervention is to determine if it is feasible, meaning, can it be done. The second goal of this intervention is to determine if there are meaningful improvements in children's healthy eating patterns, body mass index and HbA1c. The third goal is to see if the intervention improves parent's diet quality, HbA1c and the home food environment. These study findings will be used to determine whether a larger clinical trial is needed, and if so, how it should be done.

Conditions

Diet, Healthy

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This small scale healthy eating study provides Southeast Asian families with children ages 6 to 11 with a family-based nutrition education, one-on-one interviews to help with motivation to eat health, text messaging, and coupons to purchase health foods and beverages. Since this is a small scale study that is a pilot intervention, the main goal of this intervention is to determine if it is feasible, meaning, can it be done. The second goal of this intervention is to determine if there are meaningful improvements in children's healthy eating patterns, body mass index and HbA1c. The third goal is to see if the intervention improves parent's diet quality, HbA1c and the home food environment. These study findings will be used to determine whether a larger clinical trial is needed, and if so, how it should be done.

Testing a Multilevel, Multicomponent, Multigenerational Dietary Intervention to Improve Southeast Asian Children's Diets

Using Family-Based Approaches to Improve Healthy Eating for Southeast Asian Children

Condition
Diet, Healthy
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Providence

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02912

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

    Ages Eligible for Study

    6 Years to

    Sexes Eligible for Study

    ALL

    Accepts Healthy Volunteers

    Yes

    Collaborators and Investigators

    Brown University,

    Akilah Dulin, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Brown University

    Kim Gans, PhD, MPH, LDN, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Connecticut

    Study Record Dates

    2025-09