An interventional study of Intensified dietary counseling at child wellfare clinics. in Obesity, sponsored by Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. Completed at 1 site in Finland. Open to participants aged 6 Months to 6 Months, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-06-21.
Sponsored by Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
Study aims to pilot a family-centred tailored nutrition intervention at child welfare clinics, targeting the previously observed dietary defaults of Finnish children.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Time frame: 8 months
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