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Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention With Hispanic Mothers and Their Young Children
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Nutrition and Physical Activity Intervention and English for Second Language Intervention for Overweight and Obesity and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 578 participants across 1 site.
Signals
Detailed Summary
Using a randomized two-group, repeated measures experimental design, the goal of the proposed study is to investigate the efficacy of a 12-week nutrition and exercise education, physical activity, coping skills training, and home-based physical activity intervention in Hispanic women and their 3-5 year old children and 6 months of continued monthly contact to help overweight and obese Hispanic mothers improve adiposity, weight, health behaviors, and self-efficacy and their 3-5 year old children improve their adiposity and weight gain trajectory and health behaviors.
Study Details
Timeline
Arms & Interventions
Classes for the intervention mothers will be run by a bilingual interventionist and will last 105 minutes weekly for 12 weeks and then monthly for 6 months. Classes for intervention group children will be 105 minutes weekly for 12 weeks and then monthly for 6 months.
Mothers in the control group will receive English as a Second Language (ESL) classes taught by professional ESL teachers; they will receive the same number of contacts and time as the intervention group mothers for 105 minutes weekly for 12 weeks and 105 minutes monthly for 6 months. Children in the control group will be read to and color with crayons 105 minutes weekly for 12 weeks and then 105 minutes monthly for 6 months.
Interventions
Mothers. Twelve weekly classes for one hour focused on nutrition and exercise education and coping skills training followed by a forty five minute exercise class for mothers. Then they will return for one hour for continued support and a forty-five minute exercise class. Children. Twelve weekly classes for one hour focused on Color Me Healthy and one hour of free play. Then 6 monthly continued support classes where a Color Me Healthy class will be reviewed and they will have one hour of free play.
Mothers. Control group mothers will receive 12 weekly English for Second Language classes for one hour and forty-five minutes. Then 6 monthly one hour and forty minute follow-up classes receiving English for Second Language material. Children. Control group children will receive 12 weekly one hour and forty five minutes of having books read to them. Followed by 6 monthly meetings for one hour and 45 minutes being read to and coloring with crayons.