State and Local WIC-Screener, Staff, Personnel

Appendix GG
Webinar Presentation – Overview of Study

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Study Webinar:
Welcome!

The Feeding My Baby Team
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Westat

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UCLA

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Altarum

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UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is
conducting this study through a contract with Westat.

Webinar Agenda
 Study

purpose and goals
 Study overview
 Role of State Agencies and sites
 Participant recruitment and interview
processes
 Next steps
 State/local Institutional Review Board
needs
 Questions from State Agencies and sites

Why conduct this study?
Jay Hirschman, FNS
 Almost

20 years since the first WIC infant
feeding study; many things have
changed
 Other more recent studies do not have
large numbers of WIC infants and children

What are the
research objectives?
Jay Hirschman, FNS
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Update results of previous WIC infant feeding study
Compare new findings with previous WIC study and
other studies of infant and toddler feeding practices
Assess the effectiveness of different education and
breastfeeding promotion approaches in achieving
recommendations for infant/toddler feeding
Assess conditions of overfeeding and
overconsumption
Identify nutrition education influences on infant and
toddler feeding practices
Assess the impact of the WIC food packages on
outcomes
Determine changes in feeding practices and
behaviors as infants transition to toddlers and into or
out of WIC

How will the findings
be used?

Jay Hirschman and Debbie Whitford, FNS
 Understand

how WIC impacts feeding
practices and behaviors of infants and
toddlers
 Provide insight on the factors and
influences that impact feeding practices
 Inform the nation about the important
role WIC plays in early childhood nutrition

How will the study
be conducted?

Susie McNutt, Westat and Gail Harrison, UCLA
 Select

and recruit 80 sites for study
 Interview staff in State Agencies and sites
to learn about policies and practices
 Recruit WIC participants for study
 Interview participants at several points in
time over 24 months
 Analyze data and present findings

How will State Agencies
be included?
Linnea Sallack, Altarum Institute
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Already helped with site selection – thanks!
Notify sites and assist in planning study logistics
at the sites
Take part in an interview
Assist with problem solving during study period
Provide WIC administrative data for
participants in the study: weight, length, food
package type
Help with State’s Institutional Review Board
approval, if needed

How will local sites
be included?
Linnea Sallack, Altarum Institute

 Assist
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with recruiting participants:

Accommodate study recruiters in sites
Identify eligible mothers and infants
Provide counts of eligible mothers and infants
enrolled in WIC during recruitment period

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part in an onsite visit and interview
about local agency/site policies and
practices
 Ask site staff to respond to a survey

How will local sites
be included?
Linnea Sallack, Altarum Institute

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asked:
Assist with follow-up on participants in the
study by providing contact information
Provide WIC administrative data for
participants in the study: weight, length,
food package types

Which participants
are eligible?
Susie McNutt, Westat

 Prenatal

women at time of
enrollment/certification for current
pregnancy
 Infants no more than 2.5 months old
whose mothers did not receive WIC
during the pregnancy
 Participants will be assigned to either a
core or supplemental study group

How will participants
be recruited?
Crystal MacAllum, Westat
 Recruitment
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logistics

Site staff identify eligible participants with a
short referral form and provide participants
with a study flyer
Onsite recruiter/helper explains study to
participant
Participants are screened and, if eligible and
agreeable, enrolled in study

How will participants
be recruited?
Crystal MacAllum, Westat
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recruitment models:
Westat recruiter
Westat helper
WIC staff

 Looking

for local staff as recruiters and
helpers so referrals welcome
 Will need some on-site space to do
screening and enrollment

How will participants
be recruited?
Crystal MacAllum, Westat
 Recruitment

“window” for each site will
be based on number of eligible study
participants enrolled/month and
days/month the site is open for
enrollments
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Length of window will be 1-13 weeks
Goal is to screen 98 women per site but
recruitment will end when window ends
regardless of number screened/enrolled

What will participants
be asked to do?
Crystal MacAllum, Westat
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Agree to be interviewed either 4 or 11 times
over a 24 month period
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Interviews will be conducted by phone
They will last about 30 minutes
Participants will receive interview appointment
reminders in advance of each interview

Keep study team informed of contact
information
Consent to have birth record and weight and
length measurements shared or to have baby
weighed and measured

What incentives
will be provided to participants?
Crystal MacAllum, Westat
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enrollment - $50
 For each completed interview – $20

How will the study team
stay in contact with
participants?
Crystal MacAllum, Westat
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Obtain a variety of contact information:
address, phone numbers, email address,
contact info for family/friends
Provide toll-free number for participants to
call to update contact info or ask questions
Study liaisons will make periodic contacts to
remind participants of interview appointments
and update contact info
Provide study cell phones for those who do
not have telephones

What are your questions so far?

What are the next steps?
Linnea Sallack, Altarum
 Call(s) with State Agencies and sites
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Facilitated by Altarum contact
Discussion of study logistics
Q and A

Request agreement to participate
Calls between study team, State Agencies and
sites
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Consider participant recruitment options
Determine recruitment window
Address Institutional Review Board approval
More Q and A

How can you keep informed
about the study?
 View

information at

http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/feedingmybaby/
 Keep

in touch with your Altarum contact

Institutional Review
Board Approval
Nancy Weinfield, Westat
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Westat’s IRB approval
Materials available to States and sites
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Study overview
Data collection instruments and consent forms
Participant recruitment materials
Westat’s IRB approval letter

What other help is needed?
What questions do you have about IRB
approval?

Thank you for joining the team!