NCT04754269

A Mobile Health Intervention to Reduce Sweet Beverage Consumption in Latino Children

Completed NA Last updated 16 April 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Beverage Intervention in Child Obesity in 171 participants. Completed in 1 December 2023.

Timeline

5 March 2021

Primary endpoint
1 December 2023

1 December 2023

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of California, San Francisco
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	171
Start date	5 March 2021
Primary completion	1 December 2023
Estimated completion	1 December 2023
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Beverage Intervention
• Reading Intervention

Conditions studied

• Child Obesity — all drugs for Child Obesity →
• Child Development — all drugs for Child Development →

Sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Who can join

Adults 12 Months to 59 Months, any sex, with Child Obesity or Child Development. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is a major contributor to childhood obesity, caries, fatty liver disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Latino children are more likely to consume sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and to suffer from all of the aforementioned conditions. Reading out loud to children from birth through age 5 is critical for the promotion of language and early literacy skills. Children whose parents read aloud to them are more likely to start school with the skills required for early reading success. This is important as reading proficiency in third grade is the best predictor of high school graduation and career success. Latino children are less likely to be read to than non-Hispanic white children and at higher risk of entering kindergarten without critical early literacy skills. Thus, there is a pressing need for interventions to reduce SSB consumption among Latino children as well as interventions that promote reading out loud. Primary care is an optimal setting for such interventions. However, multiple demands on providers' time make it difficult to rely on in-person interventions. For this reason, it is critical to test intervention designs that do not rely directly on health care providers and that can be delivered remotely if needed. The investigators have developed two m-health interventions for Latino parents, one that promotes optimal beverage consumption patterns and one that promotes reading out loud to children. The purpose of this study is to test the impact of these interventions on child beverage intake patterns and the frequency with which parents read to children.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 2 to 4 years old.
   Phillips SM, Spiga F, Moore TH, Dawson S, et al · · 2025 · cited 3× · PMID 40494564 · DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd015326.pub2