Preventing childhood overweight by promoting healthy lifestyle behaviours from infancy - The extended Infant feeding, activity and nutrition trial. (InFANT Extend)

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Diet and Nutrition Obesity; Public Health - Health promotion/education; Diet and Nutrition; Obesity; Diet and Nutrition - Obesity

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000386932
• Lead Sponsor: Deakin University

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-04-13
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 560

Inclusion Criteria

Sixty two first time parent groups from Maternal and Child Health (MCH) centres in the Greater City of Geelong and within surrounding municipalities (Melton shire, Wyndham city, Surfcoast shire, Hobsons Bay, Ballarat) will be recruited. Groups with a minimum of 8 mothers willing to participate will be included in the study. In all, 62 groups will be recruited and randomly selected into the Intervention and Control groups. Children will be aged 3-4 months. Participation in this study would require participants to be a member of a 'first-time parents group'. More specifically, participation entails being a parent for the first time and regularly attending a first-time parents group which is linked to a Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHC) within a randomly selected recruited Local Government Areas (LGA). Parents will also be eligible to participate if they are able to freely give informed consent and can communicate in English.
For the extended intervention, all parents must have been enrolled in the InFANT study before they receive the extended intervention.

Exclusion Criteria

Parents will be excluded from the study if:
1. They are unable to give informed consent
2. They are unable to communicate in English

Infants with chronic health problems that are likely to influence height, weight, levels of physical activity or eating habits will be excluded from analyses, but will be permitted to participate in the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified