Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children

Description

High food motivation among children is trait-like and increases risks of unhealthy dietary intake and obesity. Scientific knowledge of how parenting can best support healthy eating habits and growth among children who are predisposed to overeating is surprisingly limited. This investigation will identify supportive food parenting approaches for obesity prevention that address the needs of highly food motivated children.

Conditions

Parenting, Eating Behavior, Diet, Healthy, Pediatric Obesity

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Study overview

High food motivation among children is trait-like and increases risks of unhealthy dietary intake and obesity. Scientific knowledge of how parenting can best support healthy eating habits and growth among children who are predisposed to overeating is surprisingly limited. This investigation will identify supportive food parenting approaches for obesity prevention that address the needs of highly food motivated children.

Deconstructing Food Parenting Approaches to Obesity Prevention for the Highly Food Motivated Child

Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children

Condition
Parenting
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Philadelphia

Temple University - Center for Obesity Research and Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19140

Houston

USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Hispanic or Black parent/primary caregiver race/ethnicity, based on the participating caregiver's self-disclosure;
  • 2. Low household income, based on US poverty income guidelines for WIC/Head Start eligibility;
  • 3. Child ages 4 or 5 years at baseline;
  • 4. Parent/ primary caregiver with legal representation (having 50% or more custody of child);
  • 5. Parent/primary caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare (being with child when they are eating at least two times daily);
  • 6. Caregiver with a cell phone that can be used to send and receive text messages. If there is more than one age-eligible child in the family, we will ask the caregiver to pick the index child.
  • 1. Parent/primary caregiver \<18 years of age;
  • 2. Child history of major food allergies (e.g., peanuts);
  • 3. Child medication use (e.g., insulin), developmental disability (e.g., autism) or medical condition(s) (e.g., diabetes) known to affect food intake and growth;
  • 4. Foster child.

Ages Eligible for Study

4 Years to 5 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Temple University,

Jennifer O Fisher, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Temple University

Sheryl O Hughes, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Baylor College of Medicine

Study Record Dates

2027-10-31