weSIPsmarter: Evaluating a Digital Health Intervention Aimed at Reducing Sugary Drinks Among Rural Head Start Preschoolers and Their Parents
weSIPsmarter: An Adaptation and Efficacy Trial to Evaluate a Behaviorally Based Digital Health Intervention Aimed at Reducing Sugary Drinks Among Rural Head Start Preschoolers and Their Parents
University of Virginia
744 participants
Aug 6, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This study will include 12 rural Head Start programs, randomly assigned to one of two groups: weSIPsmarter vs. control. The main goal is to find out if weSIPsmarter helps reduce sugary drink consumption in preschool-aged children and their parents.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria2
- Head Start sites: Head Start sites will be located in or adjacent to a rural county (RUCC 4-9), fall within the planned Appalachia and Black Belt regions, have an enrollment of 120 families or more, and exhibit commitment and capacity to the scope of work.
- Participants: Children enrolled must be between the ages of 2 and 5 year, be enrolled in a participating Head Start, and have a legal guardian ("parent," able under law to consent for their child to participate) who has enrolled in the trial themselves and provided consent for the child. Only one parent-child dyad per household is eligible to participate in the trial.
Exclusion Criteria1
- Parents could not have participated in formative work for this study completed under SBS 4522.
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Interventions
weSIPsmarter is grounded by the Theory of Planned Behavior as well as Satter's Feeding Dynamic Model. weSIPsmarter will also integrate relevant behavior change techniques and target concepts from health literacy, health numerary, media literacy, and eHealth literacy.
weLearn2Read participants will have access to a website with resources to improve reading readiness, including 6 structured parent lessons, setting reading goals, and 6 children's books (one mailed home each week), and options to receive weekly reminders (e.g., email or text) to encourage reading readiness.
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NCT07046351