Project Sueño: Sleep & Understanding Early Nutrition in Obesity

Description

The purpose of the study is to understand how mothers think and feel about feeding their babies and putting them to sleep, understand more about programs that can support mothers taking care of babies, and how professionals can be most helpful in helping mothers make decisions about their baby's feeding and sleeping. The overarching goal is to prevent early life obesity and progression to metabolic syndrome in high-risk populations, starting with healthy toddler weights by age 2 years.

Conditions

Infant Overweight, Infant Obesity, Infant Overnutrition, Infant Development, Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes Mellitus Risk

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The purpose of the study is to understand how mothers think and feel about feeding their babies and putting them to sleep, understand more about programs that can support mothers taking care of babies, and how professionals can be most helpful in helping mothers make decisions about their baby's feeding and sleeping. The overarching goal is to prevent early life obesity and progression to metabolic syndrome in high-risk populations, starting with healthy toddler weights by age 2 years.

First Thousand Days: Prevention of Early Life Obesity in Latino Infants and Toddlers

Project Sueño: Sleep & Understanding Early Nutrition in Obesity

Condition
Infant Overweight
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Austin

CommUnity Care: North Central Health Center, Austin, Texas, United States, 78758

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

  • * Mother to infant born full term \> 37 weeks, and are under 1 month of age
  • * Infant is singleton
  • * Infant has no identified health problems
  • * Infant is patient of CommUnityCare
  • * Mother is 18 years of age
  • * Mother is Latino/Hispanic ethnicity
  • * Mother is willing to commit to study follow-up visits
  • * Mother smokes
  • * Mother works primarily at night
  • * Infant has metabolic or chromosomal disorders, chronic neurological or respiratory conditions, or developmental disability

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 45 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Texas at Austin,

Megan J Gray, MD,MPH,FAAP, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Texas at Austin - Dell Medical School

Study Record Dates

2025-12-31