Lifestyle Intervention for Toddlers at Finnish Welfare Clinics
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Obesity
- Sponsor
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
- Enrollment
- 148
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- To promote child's and family's healthy diet
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 13 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Study aims to pilot a family-centred tailored nutrition intervention at child welfare clinics, targeting the previously observed dietary defaults of Finnish children.
Detailed Description
Eating habits can predict diet-related health problems and obesity. The defaults observed previously in the diet of Finnish children include low consumption of vegetables, fruits and vegetable oil-based fats, high consumption of sucrose, poor quality of drinks and low frequency of family meals. Child welfare clinic is the place to promote healthy lifestyles because most Finnish families visit there at regular intervals.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •all families at their child's standard 6-month child welfare clinic visit
Exclusion Criteria
- •families with twins
- •families who do not speak Finnish
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
To promote child's and family's healthy diet
Time Frame: 8 months
Changes in family's dietary choices, knowledge and attitudes. Also changes in parent's motivation and self-efficiency to improve family's diet.