Assessing Better Bottles for Babies (AB3)
Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
This study will use a 2 x 2 factorial design to test impact of two intervention strategies (bottle size and bottle opacity) on infant weight gain.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 3 days
Maximum Age: 1 month
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:
• Child is 3 days old to 1 month old
• Greater than 37 weeks gestational age at birth
• Birth weight greater than 3% for sex-specific WHO growth standard
• Caregiver must plan to use local clinic as infant's primary medical home for first 6 months of life
• Caregiver must speak English or Spanish as primary preferred language
• Caregiver age 18 years or older
• Caregiver must agree to use intervention bottles assigned during randomization and agree to stop using their existing bottles during the study period
Locations
United States
North Carolina
Duke University
RECRUITING
Durham
Contact Information
Primary
Janna B Howard, MPH
janna.howard@duke.edu
919-620-4793
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-05-28
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-05-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 76
Treatments
Experimental: Standard, Clear
This group will receive standard-sized clear bottles
Experimental: Standard, Opaque
This group will receive standard-sized opaque bottles
Experimental: Small, Clear
This group will receive small-sized clear bottles
Experimental: Small, Opaque
This group will receive small-sized opaque bottles
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Duke University
Collaborators: National Institutes of Health (NIH)