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 groupsLocations
1UMass Chan Medical School - Remote field office11205, New YorkNew York, United States
Sponsors 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