NCT06097208

BMI Development and Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Children

BMI Development and Risk of Overweight and Obesity When Attending a Community-based Health Promotion and Obesity Prevention Intervention in Kindergartens

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,000 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

The goal of this observational study is to investigate differences in attained BMI and the proportion of overweight/obesity at school entrance in children who attended kindergartens actively delivering a community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention compared to children who attended usual care kindergartens. Further questions it aims to answer are: * Explore the prevalence of attainted overweight/obesity in children at six years of age, who attended kindergartens delivering intervention compared with usual care kindergartens. * Explore the development of obesity, overweight and normal weight in children from three-, four- to six years of age, who attended kindergartens delivering intervention.

Conditions

• Health Behavior
• Child Obesity
• Body Weight

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention	The intervention involving measurements of children aged three- to four-years old in kindergartens, parents of the children had the opportunity of individual contact with a community health nurse, and education to kindergartens manager and employees e.g. pedagogues and kitchen staff. as well to parents of children in kindergartens.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2023-10-24
• Last updated: 2024-08-07