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CompletedNCT05649527NBB2022Updated Dec 14, 2022

Nutri-Bébé 2022 A French National Survey on Feeding Practice and Nutrient Intakes of Children Under 3 Years of Age

An observational study in Feeding Behavior and Nutrients Intakes, sponsored by Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 15 Days to 35 Months. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-12-14.

Sponsored by Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance · Observational

Study type
Observational
Model
Cohort
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
1,224
Ages
15 Days to 35 Months
Sex
All
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Study summary

The Nutri-Bébé 2022 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.

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Infant's and young children's diet is a determining factor in their growth and development and may impact the occurrence of non-communicable diseases in the medium and long term. In this context, knowledge regarding the feeding practice and nutrients intake in children under 3 years of age is valuable, whether for the entire scientific and medical community or for the public authorities.

Aiming to help achieving this objective, the SFAE has carried out a national observational survey every 8 years since 1981. The analysis of these data over time makes it possible to evaluate the intakes of different nutrients, to note possible nutritional insufficiencies or excesses, potentially linked to bad eating habits. On these bases, this repeatable survey can alert health professionals and help refine public health nutrition policy in France. A new edition was launched between March 2022 and July 2022 by an official polling institute, IPSOS. The sample includes more than 1,200 children aged from 0.5 to 35 months, distributed in 11 age-groups of equal importance, and living in metropolitan France (excluding Corsica).

This is a cross-sectional observational survey.

IPSOS 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 "). IPSOS ensures to conduct the surveys in accordance with the regulation on personal data protection and that respondents' personal identity is withheld. The SFAE has undertaken with the "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" (CNIL), the French data protection authority) to respect the MR-003 reference methodology and is authorized to set up the processing of data without prior authorization from the CNIL (declaration n° 2220501 of 2020/12/18).

Information on the children will be collected directly from the responding parents (primarily responsible for their child's diet). The collection of information will be carried out according to the following successive stages:

  • recruitment of families according to the quota method, provided they are fluent in French language and can use a computer.
  • To be included children should be born at term with a birth weight ≥ 2500 g and should have no intercurrent acute or chronic disease.
  • Face-to-face interview at home by an investigator to collect informed consent of the parents, sociodemographic data, child weight and height as well as information on children's eating habits.
  • Completion by the parent of an online consumption diary for a period of 3 non-consecutive days (2 weekdays and 1 weekend day, with at least one day of separation between each collection day).
  • Self-questionnaire to be completed by the responding parent on the child's diet, context and physical activities.

The study conducted in 2022 is the sixth edition of the Nutri-Bébé survey.

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Conditions studied

  • Feeding Behavior
  • Nutrients Intakes

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Keywords

  • Nutrition survey
  • Feeding practice
  • Nutrients intake
  • Infant
  • Toddler
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In context

Feeding Behavior

985 studies on the registry are indexed under Feeding Behavior; 178 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 1,224 is above the median of 183 across 270 observational studies indexed under Feeding Behavior.

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Lead sponsor

Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance is the lead sponsor of 2 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
15 Days to 35 Months
Sexes eligible
All
Sampling method
Probability sample

Study population

Children from 0.5 to 35 months old, residing in metropolitan France.

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Inclusion criteria

  • Child aged 0.5 to 35 months
  • Child whose responding parent, mainly responsible for his diet, agrees to complete the three stages of the survey ().
  • Child whose responding parent accepts the collection of birth weight, and the most recent weight and height in the health booklet. If the weight measurement has not been performed recently, the responding parent agrees to measure the weight of their child during the first interview. In this case, the presence of the child will be necessary. A recent weight corresponds to a measurement in the 15 days preceding inclusion for children aged 0-6 months, in the month preceding inclusion for children aged 6-12 months and in the two months preceding inclusion for those over one year old.
  • Child whose parents have been informed of the study orally and in writing, and have not objected to the participation of the child before its inclusion and to the collection of information concerning them.
  • In the case of the spouse of the responding parent, different from the second parent and living in the same household, no opposition to the collection of data concerning him

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Child with a chronic or intercurrent pathology (including food allergies)
  • Child with a birth weight of less than 2.5 kg
  • Child whose last weight measurement in the health record is not recent enough AND whose parent refuses to measure his weight
  • Child having to take at least one meal at school during the 3 days of filling in the consumption diary
  • Child cared for by the crèche or by a third party and whose person responsible for meals refuses to send all the information (qualitative and quantitative) to the responding parent so that he can complete the consumption diary
  • Child whose sponsoring parent is under the age of 18, or is placed under guardianship or curatorship, or under legal protection
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(1)

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Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

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Study design

Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Cross-sectional
Enrollment
1,224 participants (actual)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • Main sample

    Sample of 880 children spontaneously recruited and representative of the French population according to the criteria defined for the study. Includes breastfed children.

  • Additional sample

    Children in the appropriate age group selected because of their specific consumption in order to increase the number of children in the concerned age group to allow a statist test.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Age at inclusion

    months

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  2. Weight

    kg

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  3. Height

    cm

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  4. Prevalence of children breastfed

    frequency in %

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  5. Prevalence of children formula-fed

    frequency in %

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  6. introduced complementary food specific baby food and adult type food

    frequency in %

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  7. Age at introduced complementary food

    months

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  8. Mean over 3 days of Food quantities

    g/day

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  9. Mean over 3 days of macronutrient intake (protein, lipid, carbohydrate, fiber)

    g/d

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  10. Mean over 3 days of Intakes of Linoleic-, alpha linolenic-acids, DHA, ARA, minerals (sodium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, zinc), Vitamin B1,B2, B3, B6, C, E

    mg/d

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  11. Mean over 3 days of intakes of Vitamin B9, B12, Retinol, Beta-caroten

    µg/d

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  12. Vitamin A intake

    RE(Retinol Equivalent)/d

    Time frame: March to July 2022

Secondary outcomes

  1. Influence of parents professional activity data on practice

    p value Scale : professions and socio-professional categories (PCS) minimum: inactive maximum: high socio-professional categories (executives and higher intellectual professions)

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  2. Influence of economic status on practice

    p value Household income scale Minimum : \<1700€/months Maximum : \>5400€/months

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  3. Influence of level of education on practice

    p value 3 level scale minimum: Primary or secondary education maximum: Higher education

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  4. Duration of previous breastfeeding

    months

    Time frame: March to July 2022

Other outcomes

  1. Previous feeding

    Frequency in % of type of formula previously used

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  2. Screen exposure

    frequency in % of exposure to screens at different times of consumption

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  3. Screen exposure

    minutes/day spent in front of a screen

    Time frame: March to July 2022

  4. Physical activity

    minutes/day

    Time frame: March to July 2022

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Study locations

1 site
  • IPSOS
    Paris, 75628, France
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References and documents

Publications

  • Chouraqui JP, Tavoularis G, Emery Y, Francou A, Hebel P, Bocquet M, Hankard R, Turck D. The French national survey on food consumption of children under 3 years of age - Nutri-Bebe 2013: design, methodology, population sampling and feeding practices. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Feb;21(3):502-514. doi: 10.1017/S1368980017002518. Epub 2017 Nov 2. PubMed 29094670 ↗
  • Chouraqui JP, Tavoularis G, Simeoni U, Ferry C, Turck D. Food, water, energy, and macronutrient intake of non-breastfed infants and young children (0-3 years). Eur J Nutr. 2020 Feb;59(1):67-80. doi: 10.1007/s00394-018-1883-y. Epub 2019 Jan 16. PubMed 30648220 ↗
  • Chouraqui JP, Tavoularis G, Turck D, Ferry C, Feillet F. Mineral and vitamin intake of infants and young children: the Nutri-Bebe 2013 survey. Eur J Nutr. 2020 Sep;59(6):2463-2480. doi: 10.1007/s00394-019-02093-3. Epub 2019 Sep 25. PubMed 31555975 ↗
  • Chouraqui JP, Turck D, Tavoularis G, Ferry C, Dupont C. The Role of Young Child Formula in Ensuring a Balanced Diet in Young Children (1-3 Years Old). Nutrients. 2019 Sep 13;11(9):2213. doi: 10.3390/nu11092213. PubMed 31540250 ↗
  • 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. PubMed 34998033 ↗
  • Chouraqui JP, Thornton SN, Seconda L, Kavouras SA. Total water intake and its contributors in infants and young children. Br J Nutr. 2022 Aug 14;128(3):531-541. doi: 10.1017/S0007114521003469. Epub 2021 Sep 9. Erratum In: Br J Nutr. 2022 Jan 28;127(2):318-319. doi: 10.1017/S0007114521004372. PubMed 34496987 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No — To be shared is the global report of results on each items (food practices, food consumption, nutrients intakes), according to age groups.

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reached

Ran from Mar 2022 to primary completion in Jul 2022, 4 months.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Dec 2, 2022
First posted
Dec 14, 2022
StartActual
Mar 11, 2022
Primary completionActual
Jul 20, 2022
CompletionActual
Jul 20, 2022
Last update
Dec 14, 2022
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 14, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05649527
Lead sponsor
Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance
Collaborators
IPSOS, Centre de Recherche pour l'Etude et l'Observation des Conditions de Vie
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 14, 2022
Start date
Mar 11, 2022
Primary completion
Jul 20, 2022
Completion
Jul 20, 2022
Last update
Dec 14, 2022

Study contacts

Jean-Pierre CHOURAQUI, MD, MSc
principal investigator · Pediatric depart. Gastroenterology and Nutrition division University Hospital Grenoble-Alpes France
Amandine ROCHEDY, PhD
principal investigator · UTM Department of Sociology and Anthropology. University Toulouse - Jean Jaurès ;
Sandra BRANCATO, MD
principal investigator · Medical practice, Brignon
Domitille HERMITE, MSc
principal investigator · IPSOS
Mathilde GRESSIER, MSc
principal investigator · CREDOC
Virginie SOMON, Engineer,MSc
study director · Secteur Français des Aliments de l'Enfance

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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