Family Dietary Coaching to Improve Nutritional Intakes and Body Weight Control

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Body Weight Control; Primary Prevention; Obesity Prevention

• Registration Number: NCT00456911
• Lead Sponsor: Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation du Sucre

Brief Summary

We hypothesize that Family Dietary Coaching for one school year will allow a nutritional shift towards following recommendations and improve health indicators in free-living children and adults.

Detailed Description

Insufficient evidence supports the feasibility and the efficacy of current nutritional recommendations to prevent obesity. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that family dietary coaching would improve nutritional intakes and health indicators in free-living children and adults.

Intervention: the 1013 participating families (1013 children and 1013 parents) are randomly assigned to Group A (advice to reduce fat and to increase complex carbohydrates), Group B (advice to reduce both fat and sugars and to increase complex carbohydrates) or a control group (no advice). GA and GB receive monthly phone counseling and Internet-based monitoring. Main outcome measures are changes in nutritional intakes and body mass index throughout the intervention in both children and adults. Secondary outcomes included changes in fat mass, physical activity, fasting blood indicators and food-related quality of life.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-03
• Study Completion: 2006-07
• Status Verified: 2007-04
• Study First Submitted: 2007-04-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-04-04
• Study First Posted: 2007-04-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-02-12
• Last Update Posted: 2008-02-13

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2020

Inclusion Criteria

• second- or third-grade pupils
• affiliation with the French Health Care System
• written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

no inclusion criteria were based on pathological, ethnical or socio-educative indicators

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
changes in body mass index throughout the intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
changes in nutritional intakes throughout the intervention
changes in physical activity throughout the intervention
changes in fasting blood indicators throughout the intervention (adults only)
changes in food-related quality of life throughout the intervention (adults only)
changes in fat mass throughout the intervention
changes in anthropometric indicators throughout the intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Free-Living Participants; 🇫🇷 Paris, Ile de France, France