The BeeBOFT Study.

Recruiting

Conditions: Overweight, Obesity, Prevention, Youth Health Care, Preschool Children, tailored advice, E-health, Parenting style. Child rearing issues.

Registration Number: NL-OMON26981

Lead Sponsor: Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam-, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.TNO, Quality of Life, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Brief Summary: /A

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 3000

Inclusion Criteria

The study population consists of all newborn children and their parents who will be visited in the fist weeks after birth by one of the nurses of the 45 participating YHC-teams of the 10 participating Youth Health Care centers in the Netherlands (year 2009/2010).

Exclusion Criteria

For the the questionnaires used in this study the parents should have basic Dutch language skills.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. BMI (weight/height2) according to standardized procedures during scheduled YHC visits; waist circumference;<br /><br>2. Energy balance-related behaviors: Exercise and outdoor playing, having an appropriate family breakfast daily, sugar sweetened drinks consumption, and TV viewing, measured by parental questionnaires;<br /> <br>3. Additionally: Proportion of overweight children based on internationally accepted gender and age-specific cut-off values. <br><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Attitudes, motivation and perceived control of parents regarding the four energy balance-related (‘BOFT’) behaviors;<br /><br>2. General parenting styles and parental practices and rules. These will be measured by Child rearing questionnaire for parents; Parenting style (PS) ; Parenting practices and rules (PP);<br /><br>3. Child’s health and well-being: Infant Toddler Quality of Life questionnaire (ITQOL), brief-Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA). <br>