NCT01204489

Lifestyle Intervention for Toddlers Pilot Study

Lifestyle Intervention for Toddlers at Finnish Welfare Clinics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 148 (actual)
• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months – 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Study aims to pilot a family-centred tailored nutrition intervention at child welfare clinics, targeting the previously observed dietary defaults of Finnish children.

Detailed description

Eating habits can predict diet-related health problems and obesity. The defaults observed previously in the diet of Finnish children include low consumption of vegetables, fruits and vegetable oil-based fats, high consumption of sucrose, poor quality of drinks and low frequency of family meals. Child welfare clinic is the place to promote healthy lifestyles because most Finnish families visit there at regular intervals.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.	The intervention is completed by public health nurses who receive updating education in nutrition. A special training in a family-centred lifestyle counseling method in implemented. The nutrition intervention consists of tailored dietary counseling, information leaflets and self-evaluation card given to the families in the intervention arm. In the control clinics, public health nurses continue their usual dietary counseling.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2010-09-17
• Last updated: 2012-06-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland