Lifestyle Intervention for Toddlers Pilot Study (LIFT)

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01204489

THL 10109

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study aims to pilot a family-centred tailored nutrition intervention at child welfare clinics, targeting the previously observed dietary defaults of Finnish children.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 148 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 6 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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148 participants in 2 patient groups

Intensified dietary counseling

Experimental group

Description:

The dietary intervention consists of tailored dietary counseling, information leaflets and self-evaluation cards given to the families.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.

Normal dietary counseling

Active Comparator group

Description:

Public health nurses continue their usual dietary counseling.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.