NCT01565525

Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Can Changing How Moms Eat Prevent Obesity in Toddlers?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 306 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nationwide Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Weeks – 2 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this pilot project is to test anticipatory guidance, which is information given to families during a well child visit to prevent obesity during childhood. The objectives were to compare two styles of anticipatory guidance during the first year of life, maternal focused and infant focused, versus usual care and determine which style, if any, showed the most ideal infant feeding behaviors at age 1 year and to see if there were any differences in infant weight for height at one year of age. The investigators hypothesized that mothers who received the maternal focused anticipatory guidance (which gave information on eating family meals, not having tv on during meals, and maternal nutrition) would actually have the best infant feeding behaviors and weight for height of infants at one year.

Conditions

• Childhood Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Maternal focused intervention	This is a series of information given to mothers at child's well child visits (6 in all) starting at the newborn visit focused in maternal eating habits, using the mother as a potential 'agent of change' for the family and infant in modeling healthy eating habits.
BEHAVIORAL	Ounce of Prevention	This intervention is given via a series of handouts given to mothers at their child's well visit from newborn period to one year of age, focusing on serving size and frequency and the introduction of new foods.

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-06-01
• Primary completion: 2007-07-01
• Completion: 2007-07-01
• First posted: 2012-03-28
• Last updated: 2012-03-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States