An interventional study of Lifestyle intervention in Obesity, sponsored by University of Lausanne Hospitals. Completed at 1 site in Switzerland. Open to participants aged 3 Years to 7 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2011-01-28.
Sponsored by University of Lausanne Hospitals · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
Childhood obesity and low fitness tracks into adulthood and carries significant co-morbidities. The investigators test the hypothesis that a multidisciplinary multilevel lifestyle intervention in preschool children in the French and German speaking part of Switzerland during one school-year results in a smaller increase in body mass index (BMI) and a larger increase in aerobic fitness.
We will assess the effect of this multidisciplinary intervention in a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial including a total of 40 kindergarten classes in the French (canton Vaud) and in the German (canton St. Gallen) speaking part of Switzerland. Health promoters, trained in physical education, will receive further postgraduate training (in nutrition, education, psychology) and will then in reward teach several kindergarten teachers hands-on. These trained health promoters will intervene on the level of the kindergarten teacher, the parents, the local community and also on the level of the children following a professional pre-specified curriculum in the kindergarten that focuses primarily on physical activity, healthy nutrition, media use and sleep duration. The curriculum also includes information evenings, workshops and fun weekly homework packages. Special attention will be paid to establish a curriculum that reaches also socio-cultural high risk groups living in Switzerland. Measurements will be performed before and after the intervention.
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Exclusion Criteria:
No intervention, regular kindergarten program
Kindergarten and homebased increases in physical activity, healthy nutrition, sleep duration and decrease in media use: Involvement of parents and siblings
Behavioral: Lifestyle intervention
Kindergarten and homebased increases in physical activity, healthy nutrition, sleep duration and decrease in media use: Involvement of parents and siblings
BMI and aerobic fitness
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
total and central body fatness
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
motor abilities
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
physical activity
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
Media use
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
Nutritional behavior and food intake
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
Cognition tests
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
Health-related quality of life, presence of hyperactivity
Time frame: 1 schoolyear
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