HomeTech Healthy Lifestyle Program for Mothers With Young Children
HomeTech Healthy Lifestyle Program for Mothers With Young Children
About 17% of Chinese American preschool children are obese, compared to 12.4%of all children
 from age three to five years residing in the US; the prevalence of obesity is expected to
 increase in the future. Therefore, the proposed study will adapt a home-based and
 technology-centered childhood obesity prevention program for low-income Chinese American
 mothers of children three to five years old. The aims of the study are to assess the
 feasibility of the intervention and estimate the effect sizes on children's and mothers'
 outcomes.
This study aims to adapt and implement a family-centered and technology-based intervention to
 prevent obesity in young Chinese American children from low-income families with overweight
 mothers. The proposed study framework is based on the Information Motivation Behavioral
 Skills Model, which includes the mothers' gained knowledge/information, increased personal
 and social motivators, and acquired behavioral skills towards behavioral changes. The
 intervention will be developed with a Community Advisory Committee and validated for cultural
 appropriateness through a beta-testing process. The validated intervention will be
 implemented thereafter. Eligible overweight mothers with young Chinese American children
 (ages three to five years) will be recruited from local day care settings, low-income housing
 and Head Start programs to participate in the study. Participants will be randomized into
 either the intervention (N=15) or control group (N=15). Participants in the intervention
 group will receive the 8-week online interactive sessions and activities delivered through
 tablet computers. Participants in the control group will receive general health promotion
 topics relevant to preschool-age children via mailing materials weekly for eight weeks.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Children:

 -  must be between ages three and five

 -  have a mother who identifies her child as Chinese;

 -  be healthy-defined as free of chronic or acute illness.

 -  Mothers:

 -  must identify themselves as Chinese

 -  the primary provider of the child,

 -  be able to speak and read Chinese or English;

 -  with a BMI >= 23.0;

 -  meet low-income requirements in the Bay Area.

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Have acute or chronic conditions that prevent performing daily activities