Health4Life a Digital Intervention to Promote Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours From the Start of Life

Karolinska Institute

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Healthy

Treatments

Behavioral: Health4Life app

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Industry

Identifiers

NCT06798597

2024-07372-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The overall aim of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a digital intervention to support parents to create healthy lifestyle behaviours from the start of their infant's life, in order to prevent overweight and obesity. Using a randomized controlled trial with a hybrid type I implementation-effectiveness design we will:

evaluate the effectiveness of the 16-month Health4Life intervention on:
1. Children's' dietary intake, screen time, physical activity, and sleep
2. Children's body mass index (BMI) z-scores
3. Parental self-efficacy
Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the Health4Life app.
Evaluate and explore the implementation of the Health4Life app within primary child healthcare with regards to its:
1. acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility according to child healthcare nurses.
2. satisfaction and usage by parents.

Enrollment

504 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

Under 2 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

0-2 month old infants at routine visits at selected child healthcare centers in Sweden.

Exclusion criteria

Infants diagnosed with a neurological or endocrine disorder.
Infants who have a parent suffering from a serious physical or psychological disease making the study too demanding for the family.
Infants from families who will not be able understand the content of the app.