Mothers' Action Project for Child Health
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
460 participants
Feb 1, 2026
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This randomized controlled trial will recruit Bangladeshi mothers and their young children into a 12 month intervention that provides child health and oral health education and seeks to build social networks among mothers.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria8
- Mother:
- Age >=18;
- Speaks and reads/writes Bengali or Hindi/Urdu;
- Mother born in a South Asian country;
- Mother is primary caretaker of child
- Child:
- Aged >=12 and <=48 months
- Has Medicaid or CHIP (NYS health plan for low income families not qualifying for Medicaid)
Exclusion Criteria8
- Mother:
- Unable to provide informed consent,
- Lack of availability--either plans to travel for > 1 month during 12 month initial study period or other barriers to attendance;
- Mother has exclusionary health condition--either intellectual/cognitive or medical.
- Child:
- Weighed < 5lbs at birth,
- Has an exclusionary health condition and/or is taking long term (>1 m) antibiotics;
- Not the youngest eligible child in family
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Interventions
The investigators will use techniques from the social network literature to build each treatment group as a cohesive social network and will diffuse educational messages through these groups. Educational materials and vetted dentist referrals, plus navigation to dentist visits, will be provided.
Control arm will receive a referral to vetted dentist and educational materials on child health
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NCT06753669