A Positive Food Parenting Intervention to Promote Healthy Growth in Children at Risk for Obesity
State University of New York at Buffalo
Summary
This study is the pilot of a 12 - week positive food parenting intervention focused on structure-based and autonomy promoting practices. The intervention aims to give parents the tools to promote healthy child growth and improve diet quality. The investigators are piloting to assess feasibility and efficacy of the intervention through examining participant retention, impact on parent feeding practices, and impact on parent and child diet quality.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 5+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
PARENT CRITERIA: Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> 18 years old. * Have a child between the ages of 5 - 11 who is at risk for obesity (child BMI percentile \> 85th) or parent it concerned about their child developing overweight or obesity * Low use of positive food parenting (Defined as: low reports of individual nutrition education/ knowledge OR reports low levels of structure, involvement, or encouragement in their food parenting practices) * Must be responsible for feeding their eligible child at least 50% of the time. * Fluent in English. * Have access to internet and a Zoom compatible device…
Interventions
- BehavioralNourish to Flourish: The Power of Positive Food Parenting
This intervention focuses on increasing diet quality and parent use of positive food parenting practices with the goal of promoting healthy child growth). This will be a 12 - week, 12 session study. Sessions 1 and 12 will consist of collection baseline and post-intervention data. Sessions 2 - 11 will be a mix of online - group sessions and individual online or in - person sessions (based on participant preference). The group sessions are focused on principal investigator presentation of the intervention curriculum and group discussion. The individual sessions are focused on goal setting, coping planning, and working through individual situations with a trained coach.
Location
- State University of New York at Buffalo, South CampusBuffalo, New York