Futuros Fuertes 2.0 — Healthy start for low-income Latino infants and toddlers
Futuros Fuertes 2.0: A primary care-based intervention to prevent obesity in low-income Latino children
This program offers culturally tailored support in primary care plus text messages to help low-income Latino families encourage healthy feeding and activity habits for infants and toddlers.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of California, San Francisco NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (San Francisco, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11375749 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you join, your child will receive extra coaching delivered by culturally concordant lay health educators during regular pediatric visits and through follow-up text messages to the family. The program starts in infancy and focuses on feeding, movement, and home habits that affect early weight gain. The team builds on a prior pilot that showed improvements in child behaviors and body mass index measures. Care is delivered through participating primary care clinics that serve low-income Latino families.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are low-income Latino infants and toddlers (and their parents or caregivers) who receive care at participating primary care clinics and are within the early years of life.
Not a fit: Children outside the targeted age range, families not seen at participating clinics, or children with complex medical conditions that change growth patterns may not experience benefit from this program.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this approach could help prevent unhealthy weight gain in young Latino children and lower their future risk of obesity-related health problems like diabetes.
How similar studies have performed: A pilot version (Futuros Fuertes 1.0) showed positive changes in feeding behaviors and BMI z-score, so this work builds on promising earlier results.
Where this research is happening
San Francisco, United States
- University of California, San Francisco — San Francisco, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Beck, Amy Laura — University of California, San Francisco
- Study coordinator: Beck, Amy Laura
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.