Study is a longitudinal, randomized, controlled trial evaluating a responsive parenting intervention designed for the primary prevention of obesity.
The parenting intervention uses a responsive parenting framework with obesity prevention messages delivered at each visit that correspond to four infant/toddler behavior states: Drowsy, Sleeping, Fussy, and Alert and Calm.
This paper describes the Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT) study, a prospective, two-arm, randomized, controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a responsive parenting intervention designed to prevent rapid infant weight gain and childhood obesity among first-born infants.
We studied the efficacy and implementation outcomes of a culturally responsive parent training (PT) program.
Seventeen (32 %) high-risk offspring had a lithium-responsive parent while 36 (68 %) had a lithium non-responsive parent.
When they are fussy, scared, hungry or uncomfortable, the responsive parent works to understand their feelings and cues and make them feel better.
27 29 In depressed parents, this negative impact is thought to act via a reduction in responsive parenting behaviours and reduced quality of the parent child relationship.
Thus, psychosocial risk factors might increase the risk for the development of CD on the one hand, but there is compelling evidence that a responsive attentive parenting style is protective and might even diminish a biological determined vulnerability.
"When poor children grow up in an environment marked by stable, responsive parenting, by schools that make them feel a sense of belonging and purpose, and by classroom teachers who challenge and support them, they thrive, and their opportunities for a successful life increase exponentially". .
Because of the critical needs to support effective and responsive parenting in a challenging economic environment and to reduce the institutionalization of young children, UNICEF Bulgaria is implementing a demonstration project in one region of the country with the purpose of scaling it up with the government.
