BMI Development and Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Children

University of Aarhus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Weight; Health Behavior; Child Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06097208

Healthy weight in kindergarten

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to investigate differences in attained BMI and the proportion of overweight/obesity at school entrance in children who attended kindergartens actively delivering a community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention compared to children who attended usual care kindergartens. Further questions it aims to answer are:

• Explore the prevalence of attainted overweight/obesity in children at six years of age, who attended kindergartens delivering intervention compared with usual care kindergartens.
• Explore the development of obesity, overweight and normal weight in children from three-, four- to six years of age, who attended kindergartens delivering intervention.

Enrollment: 3,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 7 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children with eligible information on one measure of BMI after school entrance

Exclusion criteria

• <7 years of age

Trial design

3,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Description:

Children who attended kindergartens actively delivering a community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: community-based health promotion and obesity prevention intervention

No-intervention Group

Description:

Children who attended usual care kindergartens