NCT04570059

Textured Food Introduction Information and Parental Feeding Practices

Effect of Information Promoting Textured Food Introduction on Parental Practices and Children Acceptance of Textured Foods

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Month – 7 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to conduct an intervention with 60 parents of 8 months old children to test the effect of recommendations, compared to usual care, promoting the introduction of textured foods between 8 and 15 months on parental practices of use of textured foods and the effect of such practices on children acceptance for a variety of textured foods.

Detailed description

The intervention tests the effect of providing parents with recommendations on textured food introduction between 8 and 15 months on their practices of offering of textured foods and their child's acceptance of textured foods. The intervention consists of advice and tips on the why and how introducing textured food during complementary feeding, which were not address in French national guidelines (Programme National Nutrition Santé (PNNS)) at the start of the study. Advise were developped from current literature knowledge and recommendations in other countries. They are accompanied with monthly counselling via phone calls by dietician and two baskets containing food preparation utensils and commercial textured foods. The intervention group (n=30) benefits from this intervention. The control group (n=30) receive general information on healthy eating provided by the food guides of the PNNS, phone calls collecting general information and 2 baskets containing baby gifts. Acceptance is evaluated experimentally pre and post intervention in a laboratory setting evaluating children swallowing foods of different textures.

Conditions

• Feeding Practices
• Food Acceptance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Counselling on textured food introduction between 8 and 15 months	Intervention program : Advice and tips on the why and how introducing textured food during complementary feeding are grouped in a booklet and provided to participants. Monthly counselling via phone call by a dietician (at 9, 10, 11,12, 13, 14 months) and two baskets containing food preparation utensils and commercial textured foods provided at 8 and 12 months. Usual care : reflects the standard information provided within French national guidelines (PNNS). Two phone calls at 9 and 13 months. If questions are raised by parents, dieticians will restrict their responses based on the food guides of the PNNS. Two gift boxes containing presents for the child of same financial value as those provided to intervention group, provided at 8 and 12 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-13
• Completion: 2018-04-16
• First posted: 2020-09-30
• Last updated: 2020-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France