Nutrition Knowledge for Spanish-speaking Parents

Nutrition Knowledge for Spanish-speaking Parents: Evaluation of Paper Handouts, Computer Modules and Web Modules

Providing child nutrition information is a major goal of every pediatric well-child visit. Unfortunately, due to a wide array of issues, doing this effectively during clinic visits is challenging and insufficient. It is because of this that some have looked for innovative ways to enhance the delivery of this information. One such way is the use of touch screen computer programs containing nutritional information. Several studies have documented the value of patients receiving health information in such a manner.

Nonetheless, the use of this medium has not been well studied in Spanish-speaking care providers of young children. The investigators recently conducted a study that evaluated user's perception of the usability of such technology, finding that most users thought that the touchscreen was easy to use, despite their low computer confidence levels. The investigators also evaluated the impact of using nutrition modules on user's nutrition knowledge, finding that immediately after use; participant's nutrition knowledge was improved. I now propose to evaluate this technology further through a 4 armed randomized controlled trial. The goal here is to evaluate the longer term impact of the educational modules on nutrition knowledge and the impact, if any, of additional web access to the modules, on longer term knowledge. A secondary goal is to better understand nutritional habits in this population and perceptions of weight.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Obesity; Dental Caries
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Kiosk; Other: paper; Other: Kiosk PLUS paper; Other: Kiosk PLUS web

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 160
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
      • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Self identify as Latino/a
• Spanish-speaking
• Over 18 years old
• Primary caregiver to a child 2 years old and under

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child 2 years old and under has significant medical issue requiring special nutrition needs, e.g. g-tube or feeding tube dependent, severe food allergies.
• Person has used the nutrition modules before in prior studies

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment

Number of Arms

4

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Kiosk	Other: Kiosk; Touchscreen computer containing three educational modules in Spanish on infant/toddler juice intake, milk, and solid/foods
Active Comparator: Paper	Other: paper; Participants will receive a paper handout with nutrition educational information.
Active Comparator: Kiosk PLUS paper	Other: Kiosk PLUS paper; Individuals will use the 3 computer modules on a touchscreen and receive the information on a paper handout.
Active Comparator: kiosk PLUS web	Other: Kiosk PLUS web; Participants will utilize the 3 modules on the touchscreen computer and be given a piece of paper that includes information on how to see this information again on the internet. Participants will be asked to view the modules on the web.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge score	Knowledge score on the nutrition survey will be compared across groups at this time point.	Day 14

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
knowledge score	Knowledge score on the nutrition survey will be compared between the paper group and the kiosk group.	Day 1
Knowledge score	Knowledge score on the nutrition survey will be compared across groups at this time point - 2 months.	2 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Darcy A Thompaon, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2011
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 1, 2011
• Study Completion (Actual): September 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 15, 2011
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 15, 2011
• First Posted (Estimate): February 16, 2011

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 30, 2012
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 28, 2012
• Last Verified: March 1, 2012

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Stomatognathic Diseases; Tooth Demineralization; Tooth Diseases; Dental Caries
• Other Study ID Numbers: NA_00045360