Trial reportPediatrics2018
A Home Visiting Parenting Program and Child Obesity: A Randomized Trial.
Trial report in Pediatrics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of interventions during the first 1,000 days to improve energy balance-related behaviors or prevent overweight/obesity in children from socio-economically disadvantaged families of high-income countries: a systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Addressing obesity in the first 1000 days in high risk infants: Systematic review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Health professional-delivered obesity prevention interventions during the first 1,000 days: A systematic review of external validity reporting.HRB open research · 2019Pooled it
- Baby-Act Intervention to Prevent Excessive Infant Weight Gain: Development, Implementation, Lessons Learned, and Future Applications.Maternal and child health journal · 2025Trial
- Early Home Visits and Health Outcomes in Low-Income Mothers and Offspring: 18-Year Follow-Up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- The effects of a music enrichment program on parent-infant interactions during mealtime: A randomized controlled trial.Appetite · 2023Trial
- Examining Mothers' Childhood Maltreatment History, Parental Reflective Functioning, and the Long-Term Effects of the Minding the Baby® Home Visiting Intervention.Child maltreatment · 2022Trial
- Effect of a Home-Visiting Intervention to Reduce Early Childhood Obesity Among Native American Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care-Based Child Obesity Prevention Program: A Randomized Trial.Pediatrics · 2020Trial
- Starting Early Program Impacts on Feeding at Infant 10 Months Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2020Trial
- Outcomes of an early childhood obesity prevention program in a low-income community: a pilot, randomized trial.Pediatric obesity · 2018Trial
- Barriers and pathways to engagement in a home visiting intervention: Parents' perspectives on minding the baby.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Practitioner Review: Clinical insights from attachment theory and research for professionals working with young children and their families.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
- Parenting styles, parenting interventions, and childhood obesity.Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care · 2025Article
- Feasibility of an Obesity Prevention Program for Latino Families from First Trimester of Pregnancy to Child Age 18 Months and Predictors of Program Attendance.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Article
- Follow-up study on the long-term effectiveness of the home-visiting program "ProKind": study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Prioritizing nutrition interventions for low-income clients receiving public health nurses' home visiting services: a latent class analysis study of Omaha System data.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
- Strategic Directions in Preventive Intervention Research to Advance Health Equity.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Review
- Collateral benefits from a school-readiness intervention on breastfeeding: A cross-domain impact evaluation.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Behavioral parenting skills as a novel target for improving medication adherence in young children: Feasibility and acceptability of thePediatric hematology and oncology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundYoung children living in historically marginalized families are at risk for becoming adolescents with obesity and subsequently adults with increased obesity-related morbidities. These risks are particularly acute for Hispanic children. We hypothesized that the prevention-focused, socioecological approach of the "Minding the Baby" (MTB) home visiting program might decrease the rate of childhood overweight and obesity early in life.
methodsThis study is a prospective longitudinal cohort study in which we include data collected during 2 phases of the MTB randomized controlled trial. First-time, young mothers who lived in medically underserved communities were invited to participate in the MTB program. Data were collected on demographics, maternal mental health, and anthropometrics of 158 children from birth to 2 years.
resultsMore children in the intervention group had a healthy BMI at 2 years. The rate of obesity was significantly higher (
conclusionsUsing the MTB program, we significantly lowered the rate of obesity among 2-year-old children living in low-socioeconomic-status communities. In addition, children of Hispanic mothers were less likely to have overweight or obesity at 2 years. Given the high and disproportionate national prevalence of Hispanic young children with overweight and obesity and the increased costs of obesity-related morbidities, these findings have important clinical, research, and policy implications.
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