NCT01813903

Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study

Family Welfare Pilot Intervention Study at Finnish Welfare Clinics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to test internet and mobile-based applications to support motivating lifestyle counseling to promote healthy eating habits of the mothers and their spouses expecting first child. The feasibility of the intervention will be evaluated in the pilot.

Detailed description

Lifestyle habits during pregnancy have long-term effects of baby's as well as mother's health. Pregnancy period is a favorable time for lifestyle changes, as the parents usually have motivation and assets to change lifestyle. Maternity welfare clinic is the place to promote healthy lifestyles because most Finnish families expecting child visit there at regular intervals.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intensified dietary counseling	The intervention is completed by public health nurses who will be trained to provide family-centered empowering and motivational lifestyle counseling at the normal health check visit. Parents expecting child will use web application developed for nutritional counseling. Web application consists of dietary questionnaire from which the parents will receive immediately automatic feedback. Feedback concerns the quality of diet in relation to the Finnish nutrition recommendations. Feedback will be given in an encouraging format. Own targets of food changes can also be recorded in the application, and the application can be used to monitor how they are achieved.
BEHAVIORAL	Mobile application	Mothers expecting child will use mobile application. Mobile application consists of text, audio and video exercises, which are aimed to increase the psychological flexibility and thus mental and physical well-being.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-03-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2013-03-19
• Last updated: 2015-06-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland