NCT03086811

"Improved Mother Infant Feeding Interaction (MI-FI) at 12 Months With Very Early Parent Training"

"Improved Mother Infant Feeding Interaction (MI-FI) at 12 Months With Very Early Parent

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 166 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rambam Health Care Campus · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 23 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Rise in childhood obesity and poor eating habits and eating problems is apparent over the last decades. Parents are at lose what the correct way to tackle these problems may be. This study examined whether professional behavioral and nutritional training of first time mothers improves feeding relationship and infants eating habits at 12 months.

Detailed description

From 166 first time mother-infant recruited, 128 completed the trail. Intervention group, mother-infant dyads got a month long weekly based training in small workshop groups about nutrition, feeding and parenting when infants were 4-6 months old. training was given by a highly experience pediatric dietitian and social worker. Thereafter, internet-based support continued until infants reached 12 months. The control group received customary support via municipal mother-child health clinics. Mealtime interactions were videotaped at home setting at 12 months and were evaluated using the Chatoor feeding scale by blinded (to group) viewers.

Conditions

• Picky Eaters, Feeding Interaction, Good Enough Parenting, Family Meals, Emotional Eating Prevention

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mother Infant Feeding Interaction very early training	weekly training meetings on 4 topics: 1. What - proper nutrition and supplements for solid feeding phase (dietitian); What - the meaning of feeding to mother and infant (social worker). 2. Who - feeding skills - knowledge and actual practices 3. From anxiety to serenity - knowledge concerning growth patterns and common physical and emotional issues troubling parents of infants 4-12 months old. 4. Prevention of obesity and emotional eating - practical advise and tips.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-25
• Primary completion: 2013-07-21
• Completion: 2013-07-21
• First posted: 2017-03-22
• Last updated: 2017-06-07