GrowWell - Responsive Bottle Feeding

Description

The overall goal of this research is use digital health to augment the clinical encounter with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinicians and prevent rapid infant weight gain among children living in low-income households. Intervening on weight gain during infancy offers an opportunity to influence lifelong obesity risk. Using personalized motivational messages and targeted skills-training resources, the intervention will support parents and caregivers in adopting responsive feeding strategies. Knowledge gained from this project will be used to develop a future, larger grant submission focused on developing healthy feeding and eating habits among mother-infant dyads.

Conditions

Bottle Feeding

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

The overall goal of this research is use digital health to augment the clinical encounter with Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinicians and prevent rapid infant weight gain among children living in low-income households. Intervening on weight gain during infancy offers an opportunity to influence lifelong obesity risk. Using personalized motivational messages and targeted skills-training resources, the intervention will support parents and caregivers in adopting responsive feeding strategies. Knowledge gained from this project will be used to develop a future, larger grant submission focused on developing healthy feeding and eating habits among mother-infant dyads.

Using Digital Health Technologies to Prevent Obesity Among Infants of Parents Receiving Nutrition Assistance Benefits.

GrowWell - Responsive Bottle Feeding

Condition
Bottle Feeding
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Winston-Salem

Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Aged ≥18 years
  • * as a smartphone and an email address
  • * willing to send and receive daily text messages
  • * can read and write in English
  • * child is \<=1 month old
  • * participating in in a different research study that, in the opinion of the investigator, would conflict or would otherwise be too problematic if the subject were to participate in this study
  • * planning to leave North Carolina in the next 6 months
  • * documented dementia
  • * subjects who do not have the capacity to give legally effective consent
  • * agree to video recording of an infant feeding in their home
  • * any medical or congenital condition that would interfere with infant feeding or growth (ie, Down syndrome or cleft lip or palate)

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Wake Forest University Health Sciences,

Melissa C Kay, PhD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Record Dates

2025-02