Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the NYU Langone Medical Center make up the intervention sites for this cluster randomized trial. Based on social cognitive theory(SCT)and health-literacy principles, the Greenlight Intervention seeks to prevent early childhood obesity by targeting adult caregivers with behavior-change components administered by pediatric residents at each well-child visit from 2 months to 24 months. The Greenlight Intervention consists of 2 main components: (1) a low-literacy toolkit for parents, including developmentally tailored, tangible tools reinforcing recommended behaviors at each well-child visit; and (2) a health-communication curriculum for pediatric residents, including modules on teach-back shared goal setting techniques.
Counseling Schedule
Eligibility Requirements
Pediatric Patients:
Specific Inclusion Criteria at the parent-child dyad level will include:
- Consent from a primary caregiver (i.e., parent or legal guardian)
- Caregiver's ability to speak English or Spanish
- Infant presenting for a 2 month well-child visit (child is 6 ≥ 12 weeks old)
- Caregiver agrees to participate in the study, and agrees to bring their child to all well-child care visits until their 2 year well-child care visit.
Specific Exclusion Criteria at the parent-child dyad level will include:
- Child born prior to 32 weeks' gestational age or with a birth weight < 1500 grams
- Child with weight/length < 3rd percentile at 2 months of age
- Child with a diagnosis of failure to thrive or with weight that has dropped ≥ 2 percentile curves since the previous well child visit
- Child with known medical problems that may affect their ability to thrive or requires a special diet (e.g. metabolic disease, uncorrected congenital heart disease, renal disease, lung disease)
- Caregiver with significant mental or neurologic illness likely to impair their ability to participate
- Caregiver age < 18 years
- Caregiver with known plans to move out of the immediate area during the study period
- Caregiver with poor visual acuity (i.e. vision worse than 20/50 with Rosenbaum Pocket Screener as assessed at the time of recruitment)
Pediatric Residents:
Specific Inclusion Criteria at the Pediatric Resident level will include:
- Participation in the medical center's pediatric resident training program
- Providing regular care (> 3 sessions per month) in the pediatric resident primary care clinic; AND
- Consent to participate in the study
Specific Exclusion Criteria at the Pediatric Resident level will include:
- Providing no regular care in the pediatric resident primary care clinic (e.g., transitional-year resident, Medicine/Pediatrics resident); OR
- Known plans to leave the training program during the ensuing 6 months
