Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study (VACOPP)

Tampere University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Childhood Obesity Pevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00970710

100454

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to prevent childhood obesity with early life (pregnancy) intensified counselling. The recruited intervention group is pregnant mothers who are at risk to get gestational diabetes. Lifestyle intervention (nutritional and physical activity) begins during pregnancy in maternity clinics and continues in child wellfare clinics until the child is 5 years of age.

Enrollment: 185 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pregnant women who are at risk to get gestational diabetes.

Exclusion criteria

• Foreigner with language problems
• Major psychosocial problems
• Diabetes mellitus type I or II
• Physical disability,
• Major medical problems in pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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185 participants in 1 patient group

Lifestyle counseling

Experimental group

Description:

VACOPP (Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study): Intensified lifestyle counseling including physical activity and nutritional information beginning during maternity health care and continuing during child health care clinic visits.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Vaasa Childhood Obesity Primary Prevention Study