NCT06111040Recruiting
Nurturing Needs Study: Parenting Food Motivated Children
Deconstructing Food Parenting Approaches to Obesity Prevention for the Highly Food Motivated Child
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 Nov 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
High food motivation among children is trait-like and increases risks of unhealthy dietary intake and obesity. Scientific knowledge of how parenting can best support healthy eating habits and growth among children who are predisposed to overeating is surprisingly limited. This investigation will identify supportive food parenting approaches for obesity prevention that address the needs of highly food motivated children.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 416 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 26 Oct 2023
- Start date
- 7 Sept 2023
- Primary completion date
- 31 Oct 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Temple University
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT06111040
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 416
- From 7 Sept 2023 to the primary completion date, 31 Oct 2027
- 2 sites 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
- Child history of major food allergies (e.g., peanuts);
- Child medication use (e.g., insulin), developmental disability (e.g., autism) or medical condition(s) (e.g., diabetes) known to affect food intake and growth;
Age
- Parent/primary caregiver \<18 years of age;
Other
- Foster child.
Who the study is looking for
- Child ages 4 or 5 years at baseline;
- Parent/ primary caregiver with legal representation (having 50% or more custody of child);
- Parent/primary caregiver reporting primary responsibility for child feeding outside of childcare (being with child when they are eating at least two times daily);
- Caregiver with a cell phone that can be used to send and receive text messages. If there is more than one age-eligible child in the family, we will ask the caregiver to pick the index child.
Age in the registry: 4 years to 5 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Recruiting |
| Temple University - Center for Obesity Research and Education Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Recruiting |
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