Award
NIH Reporter #5R01HL153136-05
Does the provision of postnatal parenting support in primary care improve cardiometabolic health in early childhood among at-risk-families?
Recipient
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Award Amount
$728,029.00
Ceiling
$728,029.00
Awarded
July 17, 2025
Identifier
5R01HL153136-05
A research project funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to study the impact of a parenting intervention on early childhood cardiometabolic health among at-risk families.
Description
This study aims to evaluate whether a parenting intervention, Promoting First Relationships® (PFR), can improve cardiometabolic health outcomes in children by enhancing parenting quality during early childhood. The study will involve 214 mother-child dyads from an original RCT, with assessments including anthropometric measures, blood pressure, blood samples, activity and sleep monitoring, and questionnaires. The intervention is hypothesized to increase maternal sensitivity, parent understanding, mother-child relationship quality, and child self-regulation, thereby reducing long-term disease risk.