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title: Reducing Maternal Stress to Improve Obesity-related Parenting Practices
nct_id: NCT05032430
overall_status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
phase: NA
sponsor: American University
study_type: INTERVENTIONAL
primary_condition: Obesity, Childhood
countries: United States
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clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05032430"
ct_last_update_post_date: 2024-06-20
last_seen_at: "2026-05-12T07:17:25.285Z"
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# Reducing Maternal Stress to Improve Obesity-related Parenting Practices

**NCT ID:** [NCT05032430](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05032430)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 115
- **Lead Sponsor:** American University
- **Collaborators:** National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), Virginia Commonwealth University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University
- **Conditions:** Obesity, Childhood
- **Start Date:** 2023-04-25
- **Completion Date:** 2025-03-14
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2024-06-20

## Brief Summary

Maternal stress is associated with children's risk for obesity controlling for socioeconomic status. The association between maternal stress and child obesity is particularly strong in Latinx families, whose children also have the highest rates of obesity in the United States. A mindful parenting program might reduce Latina mothers' psychological stress and lead to improved parenting practices and ability to create a healthier environment. The primary objective of the proposed research is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally-relevant intervention that integrates mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindful parenting in Latina mothers. The investigators will conduct a randomized clinical trial comparing the Calma, Conversa, y Cría (CCC) intervention to an active control condition in 50 Latina mothers of elementary-school age children. Participant satisfaction rates and qualitative interviews will provide evidence of the program's acceptability. Feasibility will be determined by examining recruitment rates, retention rates, and treatment fidelity. Completion of this project will inform the development of a full-scale efficacy trial.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** FEMALE
- **Healthy Volunteers:** Yes

```
Inclusion Criteria:

* over the age of 18 years
* identify as female
* identify as Hispanic or Latina
* have a child between the ages of 3 and 11 years who primarily resides with them
* able to understand basic instructions in either Spanish or English

Exclusion Criteria:

* pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant in the near future
* actively dependent on a substance
* have untreated psychosis, PTSD, or social anxiety that would impair their ability to function in a group setting
* child has an obesity-associated genetic syndrome
* child has a pervasive developmental disorder
```

## Arms

- **Calma, Conversa, y Cría (CCC)** (EXPERIMENTAL) — Mindfulness-based parental stress reduction intervention
- **Enhanced Usual Care** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR) — Comparator group designed to influence health and well-being that does not include mindfulness as an active ingredient.

## Interventions

- **CCC** (BEHAVIORAL) — A mix of mindfulness-based stress reduction, mindful eating, and mindful parenting strategies.
- **Enhanced Usual Care** (BEHAVIORAL) — Consists of strategies meant to enhance health and well-being (e.g., health education, strategies to get more physical activity) but does not include mindfulness as an active ingredient.

## Primary Outcomes

- **Participant Satisfaction with Intervention Assessed by the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire** _(time frame: Immediately after the intervention)_ — Parents will be asked to complete a brief, 8-item, widely used measure of satisfaction with health-related services, available in Spanish and English. Scores range from 8 to 32, with higher values indicating higher satisfaction.
- **Participant Retention** _(time frame: At the beginning of each of the 6 weekly intervention sessions)_ — Research staff will take attendance during each intervention session.

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Change in the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire** _(time frame: Participants will complete this at three timepoints: baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 10-months from baseline)_
- **Change in the Perceived Stress Scale** _(time frame: Participants will complete this at three timepoints: baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 10-months from baseline)_
- **Change in the Child Feeding Questionnaire** _(time frame: Participants will complete this at three timepoints: baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 10-months from baseline)_
- **Change in the Frequency of Family Eating and Exercise Behaviors Questionnaire** _(time frame: Participants will complete this at three timepoints: baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 10-months from baseline)_
- **Change in height in meters** _(time frame: Participants will complete this at three timepoints: baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 10-months from baseline)_
- **Change in weight in kilograms** _(time frame: Participants will complete this at three timepoints: baseline, immediately after the intervention, and 10-months from baseline)_

## Locations (1)

- American University, Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

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