Clinical trials: WIC
Obesity
Multi-site Trial Using SMS to Improve Infant Weight
The goals of this multi-site clinical trial are to pilot test weekly SMS sent to parents/caregivers of infants to improve feeding practices and decrease excessive weight gain in infants who are participants of the Women, Infants…
- Trial name
- SMS (NCT02903186)
- Testing
- SMS
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Puerto Rico
- Volunteers
- 202 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Puerto Rico
Breastfeeding
Increase Breastfeeding Duration Among Puerto Rican Mothers
This study is to determine preliminary effects of home-based individual breastfeeding consultation with and without cash incentives to increase breastfeeding (BF) duration among low-income Puerto Rican mothers enrolled in a…
- Trial name
- BFCM (NCT02148237)
- Testing
- Contingency Management
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Treatment Research Institute
Obesity, Childhood
Expanding Health System Intervention Through The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program Partnership
Pilot test the health system-based intervention to improve family beverage choices and promote water consumption, engaging WIC nutritionists to augment the intervention with follow-up and counseling of families at…
- Trial name
- WHISPER (NCT05356338)
- Testing
- Pilot Intervention to reduce SSB consumption in children and families enrolled in WIC
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Childhood Obesity
PROGRESS for the Primary Prevention of Early Overweight in Low-income, Rural Families
The Parent Responsiveness Optimized: Growth, Regulation, Eating, Sleep, and Soothing (PROGRESS) study is a randomized clinical trial designed to prevent early childhood overweight among rural, low-income families participating in…
- Trial name
- PROGRESS (NCT07823582)
- Testing
- Sleep-Soothe-Play Responsive Parenting, Parent-Child Communication, Parental Mindfulness
- Volunteers
- 328 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Penn State University
Breastfeeding
The Effect of Varied Intensities of Breastfeeding Peer Support on Duration of Breastfeeding Among Oregon WIC Participants
The U.S. Surgeon General has recommended that peer counseling to support breastfeeding become a core service of the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
- Trial name
- NCT02120248
- Testing
- Telephone-based breastfeeding peer counseling
- Volunteers
- 1,948 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Oregon WIC Program
Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancer
Online WIC Nutrition Education to Promote Farmers' Market Fruit and Vegetable Purchases and Consumption
This study is evaluating the WIC Fresh Start program, a theory-driven, web-based nutrition education lesson to promote farmers' market fruit and vegetable purchases and consumption among women enrolled in the Special Supplemental…
- Conditions
- Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancer, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity
- Trial name
- NCT02565706
- Testing
- WIC Fresh Start Program, Existing Online Health Education
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 744 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- William Paterson University of New Jersey