Mothers' Action Project for Child Health
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age12-45
SponsorUniversity of Massachusetts, Worcester
About this trial
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.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Age >=18;
Speaks and reads/writes Bengali or Hindi/Urdu;
Mother born in a South Asian country;
Mother is primary caretaker of child
Disqualifiers
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.
Weighed < 5lbs at birth,
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- health education and social network building
- dental referral and educational materials
Treatment groups
460 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
University of Massachusetts, Worcester
Lead sponsor
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
Collaborator
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov