Actively Recruiting
Early Childhood Dietary Assessment Study
Led by The University of Tennessee, Knoxville · Updated on 2025-11-12
40
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
50 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The goal of this crossover randomized controlled trial is to develop a proxy reporting protocol for a traditional 24-hour dietary recall (24HR) and an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) assisted 24-HR for use among children between the ages of 2 and 5 years. The main aims are to: 1. Assess the usability and feasibility of each proxy-reporting protocol and dietary assessment methodology. 2. Describe the dietary misreporting captured using each proxy-reporting protocol, and 3. Explore the accuracy of energy intake estimation of the 24HR and EMA+24HR methods, compared to objectively measured food intake. During the research study, participants will: 1. Be provided with one meal and two snacks each day to provide to their child on three consecutive days. Foods can be offered to their child at times of their choosing, and leftovers will be placed back into reusable food storage containers to be picked up by research study staff. Uneaten foods will be weighed for an objective measure of intake. 2. The day after study-provided foods are given to the child, the adult caregiver will complete a proxy-reported 24HR phone call with a trained research assistant. 3. In the EMA+24HR condition, caregivers will be provided access to an online platform where they will upload pre- and post-photographs of all of their child's eating occasions across the three days that study-provided foods are eaten.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Early Childhood Dietary Assessment Study
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Adult caregiver aged 18 years or older
- Child has no food allergies or medical dietary restrictions
- Caregiver reports child likes at least 70% of study-provided foods from the list
- Caregiver has access to a smartphone compatible with the EMA platform
- Caregiver can identify a second adult caregiver with smartphone access willing to feed the child study foods at least twice
You will not qualify if you...
- Caregiver unwilling to feed study-provided foods to the child
- Caregiver unwilling to take pre- and post-meal photos of the child's eating occasions
- Caregiver unwilling or unable to identify a second adult caregiver meeting eligibility
- Caregiver and child live separately more than 2 days per week
- Family lives more than 25 miles outside the Knoxville, Tennessee metropolitan area
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Healthy Eating and Activity Lab, University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37996
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
E
Emilie Holloway, MS, RDN
CONTACT
H
Hollie Raynor, PhD, RD, LDN
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
NONE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
CROSSOVER
Primary Purpose
OTHER
Number of Arms
2
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