Using Family-Based Approaches to Improve Healthy Eating for Southeast Asian Children
Testing a Multilevel, Multicomponent, Multigenerational Dietary Intervention to Improve Southeast Asian Children's Diets
Brown University
150 participants
May 12, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This small scale healthy eating study provides Southeast Asian families with children ages 6 to 11 with a family-based nutrition education, one-on-one interviews to help with motivation to eat health, text messaging, and coupons to purchase health foods and beverages. Since this is a small scale study that is a pilot intervention, the main goal of this intervention is to determine if it is feasible, meaning, can it be done. The second goal of this intervention is to determine if there are meaningful improvements in children's healthy eating patterns, body mass index and HbA1c. The third goal is to see if the intervention improves parent's diet quality, HbA1c and the home food environment. These study findings will be used to determine whether a larger clinical trial is needed, and if so, how it should be done.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria13
- Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian or Vietnamese
- the child's parent, legal guardian or grandparent
- live with the child
- age 18 or older
- knowledgeable about the child's diet
- responsible for household food preparation
- read/speak English, Hmong, Khmer, Vietnamese and/or Lao
- own a smartphone
- be willing to shop at the partner SEA grocery store
- Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian or Vietnamese
- age 6 to 11 years
- read/speak English
- Veggie Meter score ≤400
Exclusion Criteria5
- participation in weight-related studies in the past 12 months
- medical conditions that would affect participation (e.g., hospitalization due to type 2 diabetes in past year)
- disabilities that would affect participation
- chronic conditions affecting growth or diet
- medications affecting weight or metabolism
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Interventions
For six months, families will receive weekly, $15 financial incentives to purchase healthy foods and beverages at a partnering Southeast Asian grocery store
For six months, families will receive weekly, $15 financial incentives to purchase healthy foods and beverages at a partnering Southeast Asian grocer store, in-person, group-based nutrition education with other Southeast Asian families, text messages and motivational interviewing
For six months, families will attend in-person, group-based school engagement education with other Southeast Asian families designed to improve youths' academic outcomes. Families will receive text messages and motivational interviews. At the end of the six months, families will receive the equivalent of the six months worth of weekly, $15 financial incentives.
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NCT05817838