Primary Care Beverage Study

Evaluation of a Primary Care-Based Intervention to Reduce Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages and 100% Fruit Juice Among Latino Children

This is a pilot randomized clinical trial of a brief educational intervention offered in primary care for Latino parents that promotes healthy beverage consumption by infants and toddlers. The control group will receive an educational intervention that promotes parents reading to children.

To use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design to test the efficacy of a primary care-based intervention to promote Bright Futures recommendations for consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and 100% fruit juice among Latino children ages 6 months to 5 years.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parents self-identify as Latino
• Parents speak English or Spanish
• Parents have a child between the ages of 6 months and 5 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Parents who have participated in group educational sessions on nutrition offered through our obesity clinic or who have been newly referred to obesity clinic
• Parents whose child has a chronic condition which affects feeding (such as requiring tube feeds or being on a specialized diet for poor weight gain)