Nutricity: A mHealth nutrition intervention to improve diet quality among Latino children

项目总结/摘要：项目1（吉布斯）： 营养素养是一个人如何使用有关健康饮食的信息来做出健康的食物选择。 大多数美国人吃高热量和营养不良的饮食，促进肥胖和慢性疾病。提高 为了美国人的健康，我们必须提高营养素养。美国人需要易于跟踪和易于访问 健康的饮食建议，以便他们可以选择健康的饮食模式。父母影响孩子的饮食在许多 方式，以及五岁之前形成的饮食模式贯穿一生。在这项研究中，我们建议参与 拉丁裔父母和他们的幼儿（1-5岁）使用我们的文化定制，双语 （英文/西班牙文）移动的干预，营养。我们的目标是改善肥胖和疾病饮食习惯 预防 我们有三个目标： 1.让一小部分父母和孩子对Nutricity进行为期三个月的访问。我们将衡量 在研究结束时，孩子们有更好的饮食模式。 2.我们将衡量加入研究的父母-子女对是否具有与 未被研究或加入但未完成的诊所的父母-子女对;父母- 参与研究的儿童配对参与;以及是否有其他与健康有关的 研究结束时的改善。 3.我们将衡量儿科诊所是否是研究Nutricity的良好环境。 因此，我们将制作一个移动的程序来改善儿童的饮食模式， 诊所。如果Nutricity在儿科诊所环境中有效且可行，未来的研究将 在更大的范围内评估Nutricity的实施。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: PROJECT 1 (GIBBS): Nutrition literacy is how well a person can use information about healthy eating to make healthy food choices. Most Americans eat high calorie and nutrient-poor diets that promote obesity and chronic disease. To improve the health of Americans, we must increase nutrition literacy. Americans need easy to follow and easy to access healthy eating advice so they can choose healthy eating patterns. Parents affect their child's diet in many ways, and diet patterns formed before age five years track throughout life. In this study, we propose to engage Latino parents and their young children (1-5 years of age) using our culturally tailored, bilingual (English/Spanish) mobile intervention, Nutricity. Our goals are to improve eating habits for obesity and disease prevention. Our aims are three-fold: 1. Give a small sample of parent-child pairs access to Nutricity for three months. We will measure whether children have better eating patterns at the end of the study. 2. We will measure whether the parent-child pairs who joined the study have similar characteristics with parent-child pairs of the clinic who were not studied or who joined but did not finish; whether parent- child pairs who joined the study were engaged; and whether there were other health-related improvements at the end of the study. 3. We will measure if the pediatric clinic is a good setting to study Nutricity. As a result, we will produce a mobile program to improve child eating patterns, using few resources from clinics. If Nutricity is effective and feasible to deliver within the pediatric clinic setting, future research will evaluate the implementation of Nutricity on a larger scale.