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NCT03866902Completed

Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children Nutrition

Healthy Mothers-Healthy Children: An Intervention With Hispanic Mothers and Their Young Children

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Jun 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Using a randomized two-group, repeated measures experimental design, the goal of the proposed study is to investigate the efficacy of a 12-week nutrition and exercise education, physical activity, coping skills training, and home-based physical activity intervention in Hispanic women and their 3-5 year old children and 6 months of continued monthly contact to help overweight and obese Hispanic mothers improve adiposity, weight, health behaviors, and self-efficacy and their 3-5 year old children improve their adiposity and weight gain trajectory and health behaviors.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
578 (actual)
First submitted
24 Feb 2019
Start date
8 Feb 2019
Primary completion date
13 Apr 2023
Lead sponsor
University of Miami
Diseases
Obesity
NCT number
NCT03866902

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 578
  • From 8 Feb 2019 to the primary completion date, 13 Apr 2023
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • heart murmur
  • congenital heart disease
  • family history of sudden death

Other

  • difficulty exercising
  • psychological problems

Who the study is looking for

  • age 18 years or older
  • self-identification as Hispanic
  • limited English proficiency; little acculturation, as measured by the Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics with a score from 1.00 to 2.99
  • ability to understand spoken Spanish
  • a BMI \>25kg/m\^2
  • residence with the child
  • consent to join the study and consent for their child to join the study.
  • age 3-5 years
  • ability to understand spoken Spanish
  • a BMI \> 25th percentile for age and gender

Age in the registry: 3 years to 50 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Chapel HillUnited StatesUnknown status

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