Lifestyle Intervention for Toddlers Pilot Study (LIFT)

Lifestyle Intervention for Toddlers at Finnish Welfare Clinics

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Obesity
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 148
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Finland
  • Uusimaa
    • Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland, 02070
      • Child welfare clinics

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 months to 6 months (Child)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intensified dietary counseling; The dietary intervention consists of tailored dietary counseling, information leaflets and self-evaluation cards given to the families.	Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.; The intervention is completed by public health nurses who receive updating education in nutrition. A special training in a family-centred lifestyle counseling method in implemented. The nutrition intervention consists of tailored dietary counseling, information leaflets and self-evaluation card given to the families in the intervention arm. In the control clinics, public health nurses continue their usual dietary counseling.
Active Comparator: Normal dietary counseling; Public health nurses continue their usual dietary counseling.	Behavioral: Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics.; The intervention is completed by public health nurses who receive updating education in nutrition. A special training in a family-centred lifestyle counseling method in implemented. The nutrition intervention consists of tailored dietary counseling, information leaflets and self-evaluation card given to the families in the intervention arm. In the control clinics, public health nurses continue their usual dietary counseling.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To promote child's and family's healthy diet	Changes in family's dietary choices, knowledge and attitudes. Also changes in parent's motivation and self-efficiency to improve family's diet.	8 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
• Collaborators: University of Helsinki; Tampere University; The Finnish Hearth Association; The Finnish Food Information
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Suvi M Virtanen, Professor, Head of the Nutrition Unit, professor

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: September 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 1, 2012
• Study Completion (Actual): May 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 16, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 16, 2010
• First Posted (Estimate): September 17, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): June 21, 2012
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 20, 2012
• Last Verified: June 1, 2011

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: THL 10109