Mothers' Action Project for Child Health
Recruiting · NCT06753669 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester
View the official record on ClinicalTrials.gov →Interventions studied
dental referral and educational materialshealth education and social network building
What this trial is about
This randomized controlled trial will recruit Bangladeshi mothers and their young children into a 12 month intervention that provides child health and oral health education and seeks to build social networks among mothers.
Who can take part
Age range
12 Months to 45 Years
Sex
All (male and female)
Healthy volunteers
Yes - healthy volunteers may be accepted
Phase
Not applicable (e.g. observational or device study)
Study type
Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment)
Inclusion criteria
- Mother:
- Age \>=18;
- Speaks and reads/writes Bengali or Hindi/Urdu;
- Mother born in a South Asian country;
- Mother is primary caretaker of child
- Child:
- Aged \>=12 and \<=48 months
- Has Medicaid or CHIP (NYS health plan for low income families not qualifying for Medicaid)
Exclusion criteria
- Mother:
- Unable to provide informed consent,
- Lack of availability--either plans to travel for \> 1 month during 12 month initial study period or other barriers to attendance;
- Mother has exclusionary health condition--either intellectual/cognitive or medical.
- Child:
- Weighed \< 5lbs at birth,
- Has an exclusionary health condition and/or is taking long term (\>1 m) antibiotics;
- Not the youngest eligible child in family
Where it is running
1 location listed across 1 US state.
- UMass Chan Medical School - Remote field office - New York, New York, United States