"Improved Mother Infant Feeding Interaction (MI-FI) at 12 Months With Very Early Parent Training"

Rambam Health Care Campus

Status: Completed

Conditions: Picky Eaters, Feeding Interaction, Good Enough Parenting, Family Meals, Emotional Eating Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Mother Infant Feeding Interaction very early training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03086811

0156-11-RMB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Rise in childhood obesity and poor eating habits and eating problems is apparent over the last decades. Parents are at lose what the correct way to tackle these problems may be. This study examined whether professional behavioral and nutritional training of first time mothers improves feeding relationship and infants eating habits at 12 months.

Full description

From 166 first time mother-infant recruited, 128 completed the trail. Intervention group, mother-infant dyads got a month long weekly based training in small workshop groups about nutrition, feeding and parenting when infants were 4-6 months old. training was given by a highly experience pediatric dietitian and social worker. Thereafter, internet-based support continued until infants reached 12 months. The control group received customary support via municipal mother-child health clinics. Mealtime interactions were videotaped at home setting at 12 months and were evaluated using the Chatoor feeding scale by blinded (to group) viewers.

Enrollment: 166 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 23 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• normal and healthy pregnancy
• full term delivery of infants
• infants with a normal birth weight and no health problems
• Mothers recruited had at least a high school education
• mothers lived near to or in the city (important for video taping)

Exclusion criteria

• Mothers with mental illness in the present or the past (such as schizophrenia, depression or an eating disorder)
• infants with chronic diseases that required specific diets (such as milk allergy) or gastrointestinal diseases (celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, Crohn's disease etc.)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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166 participants in 2 patient groups

intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

First time mothers, when infants were ages 4-6 months old, took part in a training program in small group setting (10-12 mother-infants). the program continued for a month, with 4 weekly meetings. group coordinators were a highly experienced pediatric dietitian, and a social worker. Training topics addressed were infant healthy nutrition and growth, feeding skills, obesity and emotional feeding prevention, parenting. Thereafter, mothers were encouraged to stay in contact with the trainers, till infants reached age 12 months and data was collected using video taping of mealtime feeding interactions at home setting environment. Mother Infant Feeding Interaction very early training

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mother Infant Feeding Interaction very early training

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control group first time mothers were recruited when infants were around 11-12 months of age for data collection of mealtime feeding interactions taping at home setting environment. They received during this year the official support and training given in municipality care centers.