TARGet Kids!: Measuring Nutrition in Young Preschool Children in the Primary Care Practice Setting (TARGetKids!)

The Hospital for Sick Children

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obesity; Development; Nutritional Disorders

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01869530

2063

Details and patient eligibility

About

TARGet Kids! (The Applied Research Group for Kids) is a research study enrolling healthy children aged 0-5 years. The aim of the TARGet Kids! registry is to link early life exposures to health problems including obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and developmental problems.

TARGet Kids! represents an innovative collaboration between child health researchers and children's primary care doctors (pediatricians and family physicians) to promote research that really matters and create solutions to some of the today's biggest health concerns. The results of this collaborative research study are not only improving the quality of children's healthcare but also the health of children across the country. Coordinated by Sick Kids and St. Michael's Hospital with data management services by the Applied Health Research Centre (AHRC), TARGet Kids! is the only primary care research network for children in Canada.

Enrollment: 14,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 5 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Birth to less than 6 years of age
• Parental consent
• Attending a TARGet Kids! research network practice

Exclusion criteria

• Chronic illness with the exception of asthma

Trial design

14,000 participants in 1 patient group

Healthy children