Testing a Multilevel, Multicomponent, Multigenerational Dietary Intervention to Improve Southeast Asian Children's Diets

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.

Description

Eligibility

Age range

6+ years

Sex

All

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Interventions

• Behavioral
  Financial Incentives

  For six months, families will receive weekly, $15 financial incentives to purchase healthy foods and beverages at a partnering Southeast Asian grocery store

• Behavioral
  Financial Incentives and Multilevel Multicomponent

  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

• Other
  School Engagement

  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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