Simply Dinner: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Home Meal Delivery.

Objective: To determine the effect of a bundled intervention (home meal delivery and provision of cooking/serving resources) on preschoolers' body mass index z-score (BMIz), dietary quality, and family meal frequency.

Methods: Participants (299 families; mean child age 4.4 years, 47% male, 55% White, 18% Black, 27% Hispanic or other race and ethnicity, and 25% were overweight or obese) were randomized to a control group or to provision of cooking/serving resources plus home meal delivery for 12 weeks (meals provided by Meals on Wheels [MOW cohort, n = 83] or a commercial service [COM cohort, n = 216]).

Stressed Mothers Receiving Infant Mental Health-Based Early Head Start Increase in Mind-Mindedness.

Maternal mind-mindedness is a characteristic of supportive parenting and contributes to many positive social-emotional outcomes in early childhood. However, there is limited knowledge of mind-mindedness among parents experiencing parenting stress from low-income settings. This is a critical gap in evidence given the robust role of supportive parenting in children's development and the capacity of home-based interventions to improve children's outcomes through enhancing supportive parenting.

Maternal Mindfulness Is Associated With Lower Child Body Mass Index Z Score.

Background: Parental mindfulness may be a novel intervention target for child obesity prevention.

Objective: To examine associations between maternal mindfulness and child body mass index z-score (BMIz).

Methods: In a secondary data analysis of preintervention data from a randomized controlled trial, we assessed survey and anthropometric data from English-speaking mother/child dyads enrolled in Head Start in south central Michigan (n = 105).