Family-based obesity prevention for infants: Design of the "Mothers & Others" randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our goal is to test the efficacy of a family-based, multi-component intervention focused on infants of African-American (AA) mothers and families, a minority population at elevated risk for pediatric obesity, versus a child safety attention-control group to promote healthy weight gain patterns during the first two years of life.

Design, participants, and methods

The design is a two-group randomized controlled trial among 468 AA pregnant women in central North Carolina. Mothers and study partners in the intervention group receive anticipatory guidance on breastfeeding, responsive feeding, use of non-food soothing techniques for infant crying, appropriate timing and quality of complementary feeding, age-appropriate infant sleep, and minimization of TV/media. The prim

SUBMITTER: Wasser HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5757623 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature