Delta Healthy Sprouts: Intervention to Promote Maternal Weight Control and Reduce Childhood Obesity in the MS Delta

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title: Delta Healthy Sprouts: A Randomized Trial to Determine the Comparative Efficacy of Two Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Programs on Maternal Weight Control and Childhood Obesity in the Mississippi Delta

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project is a randomized, controlled trial evaluating the enhancement of an existing Mother, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program in 150 African American women in their early second trimester of pregnancy. The control arm, Parents as Teachers, is an evidence-based approach to increase parental knowledge of child development and improve parenting practices. The experimental arm, Parents as Teachers Enhanced, builds on the Parents as Teachers curriculum by including nutrition and physical activity components specifically designed for the gestational and postnatal periods. Both arms of the intervention will be implemented by community-based, trained Parent Educators. The comparative effectiveness of the two intervention arms on weight status, dietary intake, and health behaviors of mothers and their infants will be assessed. The Delta Healthy Sprouts Project will determine if a novel, scalable, lifestyle intervention can improve the health of African American women and their children at high-risk for obesity and chronic disease.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Obesity
• Pediatric Obesity

• NCT number: NCT01746394
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: USDA, Delta Human Nutrition Research Program
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2013
• Completion date: May 2016