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The Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (ECHO): an ecologically-based intervention delivered by home visitors for newborns and their mothers

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Title
The Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (ECHO): an ecologically-based intervention delivered by home visitors for newborns and their mothers
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BMC Public Health, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1897-9
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Michelle M. Cloutier, James Wiley, Zhu Wang, Autherene Grant, Amy A. Gorin

Abstract

Obesity is a major problem in the United States, particularly among socio-economically disadvantaged Latino and Black children. Effective interventions that can be disseminated to large numbers of at-risk children and their families are needed. The goals of the Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Program (ECHO) are to examine the 12-month efficacy of a primary obesity prevention program targeting the first year of life that is delivered by home visitors and that engages mothers as agents of change to modify their own behavior and their infant's behavior through education and skill-building around nutrition, physical activity, and wellness, and then "echoes" her training with linkages to neighborhood programs and resources. Six family centers located in low-income neighborhoods in Hartford, CT were randomized into control and intervention neighborhoods. Fifty-seven mothers were recruited either prenatally or shortly after delivery into the Nurturing Families Network home visitation program; 27 lived in a control neighborhood and received the standard home visitation program and 30 lived in an intervention neighborhood and received both the standard home visitation program and the ECHO intervention. The intervention increases maternal skills in goal-setting, stimulus control and problem-solving, engages family members to support changes, links mothers to neighborhood resources and is embedded in the standard home visitation program. ECHO targets include breastfeeding, solids, juice and sugar-sweetened beverages, routines for sleep and responding to infant cues, television/screen time, and maternal diet and physical activity. We hypothesize that infants in ECHO will have been breastfed longer and exclusively, will have delayed introduction of solids and juice, have longer sleep duration, decreased television/screen time and a lower weight for length z-score at 12 months, and their mothers will have greater fruit and vegetable consumption and higher levels of physical activity. ECHO will provide important information about whether an enhanced behavior change curriculum integrated into an existing home visitation program, focused on the mother as the agent of change and linked to neighborhood resources is effective in changing energy balance behaviors in the infant and in the mother. If effective, the intervention could be widely disseminated to prevent obesity in young children. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02052518 January 30, 2014.

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Country Count As %
Spain 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 409 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 68 16%
Student > Bachelor 55 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 12%
Researcher 41 10%
Student > Postgraduate 22 5%
Other 60 14%
Unknown 119 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 82 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 73 18%
Social Sciences 38 9%
Psychology 23 6%
Sports and Recreations 22 5%
Other 44 11%
Unknown 133 32%
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#14,167,750
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#174
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