# Nutricity: A mHealth nutrition intervention to improve diet quality among Latino children

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER · 2024 · $177,763

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: PROJECT 1 (GIBBS):
Nutrition literacy is how well a person can use information about healthy eating to make healthy food choices.
Most Americans eat high calorie and nutrient-poor diets that promote obesity and chronic disease. To improve
the health of Americans, we must increase nutrition literacy. Americans need easy to follow and easy to access
healthy eating advice so they can choose healthy eating patterns. Parents affect their child's diet in many
ways, and diet patterns formed before age five years track throughout life. In this study, we propose to engage
Latino parents and their young children (1-5 years of age) using our culturally tailored, bilingual
(English/Spanish) mobile intervention, Nutricity. Our goals are to improve eating habits for obesity and disease
prevention.
Our aims are three-fold:
 1. Give a small sample of parent-child pairs access to Nutricity for three months. We will measure whether
 children have better eating patterns at the end of the study.
 2. We will measure whether the parent-child pairs who joined the study have similar characteristics with
 parent-child pairs of the clinic who were not studied or who joined but did not finish; whether parent-
 child pairs who joined the study were engaged; and whether there were other health-related
 improvements at the end of the study.
 3. We will measure if the pediatric clinic is a good setting to study Nutricity.
As a result, we will produce a mobile program to improve child eating patterns, using few resources from
clinics. If Nutricity is effective and feasible to deliver within the pediatric clinic setting, future research will
evaluate the implementation of Nutricity on a larger scale.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10927192
- **Project number:** 5P20GM139733-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Heather Gibbs
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $177,763
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-11 → 2028-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10927192

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10927192, Nutricity: A mHealth nutrition intervention to improve diet quality among Latino children (5P20GM139733-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10927192. Licensed CC0.

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