Nutri-Bébé 2013 Survey on Food Consumption of Infants and Young Children (NBB2013)

The French National Survey on Food Consumption of Children Under 3 Years of Age

The Nutri-Bébé 2013 survey is an observational cross-sectional study aiming to update food consumption, practices and nutrient intakes in children under 3 years of age in metropolitan France.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Toddlers; Infants; Food Consumption

Detailed Description

Nutri-Bébé 2013 is the 5th edition of a survey conducted every 8 years since 1981 by the SFAE. The Nutri-Bébé 2013 survey is an observational cross-sectional study conducted in children living in France aged 15 days to 35 months by an official polling institute, the TNS Sofres according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki. TNS Sofres fulfills the following standards and industry requirements (ESOMAR professional code of conduct and standards, ISO 20252:2012 international standard for market, opinion and social research, French data protection act (loi "informatique et libertés "). TNS Sofres ensures to conduct the surveys in accordance with the regulation on personal data protection and that respondents' personal identity is withheld. Moreover TNS Sofres appointed a data protection officer, the "Correspondant Informatique et Libertés", who is the point of contact between the "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" (CNIL), the French data protection authority) and the company. The company is thus exempted, of the notification process to the CNIL. Given the type of survey conducted, namely a survey of consumption, and the characteristics developed above, the study does not require any opinion of the ethics committee.

The survey includes a section on eating behaviours and a section on food consumption.

After giving their informed consent, parents had to record the food consumption during 3 non-consecutive days (2 week days and one weekend day)framed by two face-to-face interviews,. A second visit occurred seven days later to verify and complete the diary if necessary, and conduct a face-to-face interview with the mother about eating habits over the survey period. Both interviews were recorded using CAPI® software (Computer Assisted Personal Interviews, http://www.soft-concept.com). During this visit, the child was weighed (naked, with a clean diaper or underwear) using a Tefal PREMISS PP1000VO scale with a precision of 100 g.

The child's food consumption diary was completed between the two visits of the TNS Sofres investigator. The person in charge of the child was trained to qualitatively and quantitatively report all liquid and solid foods consumed and all drinks, by specifying the exact name of the product, its potential trademark or whether it was "homemade". The type of water consumed was noted as being either "bottled" or "tap". The type (breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, nocturnal food intake) and timing of food consumption were collected. If applicable, vitamin, mineral or medicine supplements were noted. During the second visit the investigator reviewed thoroughly the record with the caregiver and checked the way of reporting the quantities as well as the interpretation of the photographic tool kit in order to be as close as possible to reality.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1192

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Montrouge, France, 92129
    • EMERY Yves

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

The present survey is based on a randomly selected sample with socio-demographic characteristics similar to the general population living in mainland France (i.e. excluding Corsica, overseas departments, regions, and communities, and New Caledonia). A quota sampling method was used: sampling wastratified by residential area, size of the urban agglomeration, infant gender, mother's professional activity, occupational and socio-occupational status and adjusted for these different characteristics. This stratification was based on the population characteristics of the 2002 census of the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Research (INSEE, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques).

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• informed parental consent to participate in the study,
• absence of intercurrent or chronic disease
• birth weight above 2.5 kg

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non compliance withe the study protocol
• For outcome 3 analysis (intakes), reported weight inconsistent with the child's age (> or <3 SD)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Age groups; Eleven age groups that took into account the previous surveys and the key stages of child development were defined: 15 days to 3 months, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8-9, 10-11, 12- 17, 18-23, 24-29, and 30-35 months.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Age at inclusion	months	January to april 2013
Weight at inclusion	kg	January to april 2013
Prevalence of socio-demographic condition, feeding practice, consumption energy contribution,	frequency in %	January to april 2013
Time of introducing or withdrawing a food	months	history of feeding before being included in the survey
Mean over 3 days of Food quantities and macronutrient intake (water, protein, lipid, carbohydrate, fiber)	g/d	January to april 2013
Mean over 3 days of Intakes of Linoleic-, alpha linolenic-acids, DHA, ARA, minerals (sodiu, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc), Vitamin B1,B2, B3, B6, C, E	mg/d	January to april 2013
Mean over 3 days of intakes of Vitamin B9, B12, Retinol, Beta-caroten	micro g/d	January to april 2013
Vitamin A intake	RE(Retinol Equivalent)/d	January to april 2013

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Nutrient intakes per kilogram body weight	unit/kg/d	January to april 2013
Comparison with 2005 data	p value	2013 vs 2005

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance
• Collaborators: Centre de Recherche pour l'Etude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie; TNS Sofres polling institute
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Gabriel TAVOULARIS, Engineer,MSc, CREDOC; Principal Investigator: Yves EMERY, MSc, TNS Sofres; Principal Investigator: Jean-Pierre CHOURAQUI, MD, MSc, CHUV Lausanne; Study Director: Magali BOCQUET, Engineer,MSc, Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Chouraqui JP, Darmaun D, Salmon-Legagneur A, Shamir R. Protein intake pattern in non-breastfed infants and toddlers: A survey in a nationally representative sample of French children. Clin Nutr. 2022 Feb;41(2):269-278. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.12.006. Epub 2021 Dec 8.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 3, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 21, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): February 15, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 19, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 26, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): October 31, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 31, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 26, 2017
• Last Verified: October 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Children; Nutrient intake; Food consumption; Food practice
• Other Study ID Numbers: Nutri-Bébé SFAE 2013

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: To be shared is the global report of results on each items (food practices, food consumption, nutrients intakes), according to age groups.