Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program

Body Weight Changes Clinical Trial

— ECHO  

Official title:

Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program: Building Better Families and Communities

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02052518
• Other study ID #: HD073966-02
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 27, 2014
• Last updated: February 28, 2017
• Start date: June 2013
• Est. completion date: January 2016

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: Connecticut Children's Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is proposed on behalf of the Hartford Childhood Wellness Alliance, a 107 member, 35 group organization whose goal is to improve the health of children in Hartford, CT. In a randomized control trial, the primary aim of this study is to test the initial efficacy of a program of enhanced home visitation with neighborhood and community support to change maternal behaviors related to infant nutrition (sweetened beverage/juice consumption, breastfeeding and introduction of solids), parenting skills (establishing routines around sleep, reading cues for hunger, satiety, television time) and family wellness (improving the home food environment, enhancing physical activity). The investigators hypothesize that at 12 months of age, infants in the intervention arm will drink less sugar sweetened beverages/juices, will have ingested solids at an older age, will have been breastfed longer and more exclusively than infants in the control arm and will have less TV viewing, more established sleep routines and greater soothability (primary outcomes).

Description:

See Manuscript: 125. Cloutier MM, Wiley J, Wang Z, Grant A, Gorin AA. The Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (ECHO): An ecologically-based intervention delivered by home visitors for newborns and their mothers. BMC Public Health, 15:584 PMID 26073106, 2015.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 57
• Est. completion date: January 2016
• Est. primary completion date: January 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 1 Month

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Enrolled in the Nurturing Families Network Program

• Singleton birth >34 weeks gestation

• Any race or ethnicity

• ECHO neighborhood

• Mothers and their newborns

Exclusion Criteria:

• Mothers or newborns with special health care needs

• Infant with major malformation

• Small for Gestational Age/low birth weight

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Body Weight
• Body Weight Changes
• Obesity
• Pediatric Obesity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Experimental
These participants will receive the enhanced intervention including decision support and problem solving skills in addition to the standard of care for the individuals in the Nuturing Family Network Home Visition Program

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Connecticut Children's Medical Center	Hartford	Connecticut

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Connecticut Children's Medical Center	UConn Health, University of Connecticut

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of months of breast feeding	Number of months that child is breastfed	6 and 12 months