Anticipatory Guidance to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Childhood Obesity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Ounce of Prevention; Behavioral: Maternal focused intervention

• Registration Number: NCT01565525
• Lead Sponsor: Nationwide Children's Hospital

Brief Summary

The purpose of this pilot project is to test anticipatory guidance, which is information given to families during a well child visit to prevent obesity during childhood. The objectives were to compare two styles of anticipatory guidance during the first year of life, maternal focused and infant focused, versus usual care and determine which style, if any, showed the most ideal infant feeding behaviors at age 1 year and to see if there were any differences in infant weight for height at one year of age. The investigators hypothesized that mothers who received the maternal focused anticipatory guidance (which gave information on eating family meals, not having tv on during meals, and maternal nutrition) would actually have the best infant feeding behaviors and weight for height of infants at one year.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-06
• Primary Completion: 2007-07
• Study Completion: 2007-07
• Status Verified: 2012-03
• Study First Submitted: 2012-03-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-03-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-03-27
• Study First Posted: 2012-03-28
• Last Update Posted: 2012-03-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 306

Inclusion Criteria

Maternal/infant pairs Infant under 2 months of age Mother English speaking

Exclusion Criteria

History of Neonatal ICU stay in infant Gestation less than 37 weeks in infant chronic disease in infant known genetic disorder in infant foster care placement in infant

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Ounce of Prevention	Ounce of Prevention	This is a program of anticipatory guidance given to mothers of infants ages 2 weeks to one year which focuses on serving size per age and tips for introducing new foods for the infant.
Maternal focused intervention	Maternal focused intervention	Childhood obesity prevention was approached in this arm via anticipatory guidance aimed at maternal eating habits.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Infant weight for height	One year after study entry	Infant weight for height will be assessed to see if proportions of elevated weight for height are lower in intervention groups as compared to usual care.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Maternal feeding behaviors	One year after study entry.	Several maternal feeding behaviors, including amount of vegetables and fruit offered to infant, eating as a 'family', amount of television watching by the infant, and juice intake by the infant were secondary outcomes.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nationwide Children's Hospital; 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States