NCT00970710

Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 185 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tampere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to prevent childhood obesity with early life (pregnancy) intensified counselling. The recruited intervention group is pregnant mothers who are at risk to get gestational diabetes. Lifestyle intervention (nutritional and physical activity) begins during pregnancy in maternity clinics and continues in child wellfare clinics until the child is 5 years of age.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity Pevention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study	Intensified counselling concerning healthy diet and suitable physical activity during pregnancy to mothers in the intervention group continuing in child health care clinic visits with the offspring until child's age of 5 year.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-31
• Completion: 2017-01-31
• First posted: 2009-09-02
• Last updated: 2017-02-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland