NCT04147039

A Mobile Phone App to Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in 2.5-year-olds

A Mobile Phone App to Promote Healthy Diet and Physical Activity in 2.5-year-olds - a Randomised Controlled Trial in Primary Child Health Care.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 552 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 24 Months – 38 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Childhood obesity is still a major global health issue. The preschool age (2-5 years) has been identified as a critical period to intervene, Mobile technology (mHealth) has been successful for weight loss and behavior changes in adults. This proposed randomized controlled trial aims to assess the effectiveness of an 6-month intervention program, the Mobile-based intervention to stop obesity in preschoolers (MINISTOP) 2.0 mobile phone app integrated in primary child health care for parents of children aged 2.5 years. The MINISTOP 2.0 app is built on the previous MINISTOP 1.0 app. Five hundred children will be recruited at their routine visit at 2.5 years of age and after baseline measures randomized to the intervention or control group. In addition, the investigators will assess acceptability, feasibility and appropriateness of the app by parents and primary child health care nurses.

Conditions

• Obesity, Childhood

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	MINISTOP 2.0	The MINISTOP 2.0 is a behavioural change program aiming to promote healthier diet and physical activity among 2.5-year-old children. The program consists of features such as information, monitoring and feedback (dietary key variables, physical activity, screen time) and it is built around 13 themes during the 6-month period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-11-02
• Primary completion: 2022-04-08
• Completion: 2022-04-08
• First posted: 2019-10-31
• Last updated: 2022-07-06

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Sweden