Smart and Secure Children Program for Preschool Obesity

Many behavioral interventions designed to improve dietary patterns for ethnic and racial/minority preschoolers have produced modest outcomes. A limitation of these interventions include a failure to address key factors associated with dietary patterns for these children, such as parental stress levels. Therefore, the identification of intervention models that target these factors and are effective, acceptable, and feasible among parents of young minority children is important. Subjects will be asked to take part in this study because they are the parents of a child that receives care at a Texas Children\'s Pediatrics (TCP) clinic where the study is being done and their child\'s body mass index has been at or above the 85th percentile. The purpose of this pilot study is to assess the ease and acceptance of providing an intervention for parents of children ages 2-5 years in the pediatric primary care clinic. The purpose is to also assess how well the intervention works in improving the child\'s dietary patterns.