Trial reportThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2018
Latina mothers as agents of change in children's eating habits: findings from the randomized controlled trial Entre Familia: Reflejos de Salud.
Trial report in The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02441049 (Latino Mothers as Primary Agents of Change), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Latino Mothers as Primary Agents of Change
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Improving Obesogenic Dietary Behaviors among Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- A developmental cascade perspective of paediatric obesity: A systematic review of preventive interventions from infancy through late adolescence.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- The feasibility of a dietary and lifestyle behaviour change intervention among low-income Latinas and Indigenous Mexicans in rural desert communities: a pilot randomised controlled trial.Public health nutrition · 2026Trial
- Home-Delivered Pediatric Weight Management for Low-Income Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Pediatrics · 2025Trial
- The El Valor de Nuestra Salud clustered randomized controlled trial store-based intervention to promote fruit and vegetable purchasing and consumption.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Reducing Obesogenic Eating Behaviors in Hispanic Children through a Family-Based, Culturally-Tailored RCT:International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Community-Based Healthy Eating and Nutrition Label Interpretation Intervention Among Latinx Immigrant Mothers and Their Daughters.Journal of community health · 2021Trial
- Dietary habits and metabolic response improve in obese children whose mothers received an intervention to promote healthy eating: randomized clinical trial.BMC public health · 2020Trial
- The Familias Saludables Study: A Culturally Tailored Family-Centered Intervention for Childhood Obesity Prevention Among Hispanic Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Impact of Intervention Strategies on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries: A Scoping Review.Food and nutrition bulletin · 2025Article
- Family-Based WhatsApp Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Amazonian School Children: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- Association between diet quality during pregnancy of mothers and that of 3-year-old offspring: a prospective hospital-based birth cohort study.Journal of nutritional science · 2024Article
- Randomized control trial of a childhood obesity prevention family-based program: "Abriendo Caminos" and effects on BMI.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Do Interventions Targeting Women Impact Children's Health Behaviors?The Utah women's health review · 2023Article
- Assessing Hispanic/Latino and Non-Hispanic White Social Determinants of Obesity Among a Community Sample of Residents in the Rural Southeast US.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundFew children consume sufficient servings of fruits and vegetables. Interventions aiming to improve children's dietary intake often target parent level factors, but limited research has examined the mediating role of parental factors on children's dietary intake. This study examined 10-month follow up data from the Entre Familia: Reflejos de Salud (Within the Family: Reflections of Health) trial to investigate (1) intervention effects on children's dietary intake, both sustained and new changes, and (2) whether changes in mothers' dietary intake, her parenting strategies, and behavioral strategies to promoting healthy eating in the home mediated changes in children's dietary intake.
methodsParticipants were 361 Mexican-origin families living in Imperial County, California. Families were randomly assigned to a 4-month dietary intervention or a delayed treatment control group. The intervention was delivered by promotoras (community health workers) via home visits and telephone calls. Assessments occurred at baseline, and 4- and 10-months post-baseline.
resultsAt 10-months post-baseline, sustained intervention effects were observed on children's reported intake of varieties of vegetables, with differences getting larger over time. However, differential intervention effects on fast food were not sustained due to significant reductions in the control group compared with smaller changes in the intervention group. New intervention effects were observed on servings of sugar-sweetened beverages. However, the intervention continued to have no effect on children's reported fruit and vegetable servings, and varieties of fruits consumed. Mother-reported behavioral strategies to increase fiber and lower fat mediated the relationship between the intervention and children's intake of varieties of vegetables. Mothers' percent energy from fat and behavioral strategies to lower fat were mediators of children's daily servings of sugar-sweetened beverages.
conclusionsThis study suggests that a promotora-led family based intervention can provide mothers with skills to promote modest changes in children's diet. Examining the parent related mechanisms of change will inform future interventions on important targets for improving children's diet.
trial registrationhttps://clinicaltrials.gov/ . NCT02441049 . Retrospectively registered 05.06.2015.
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